Word: pedanticism
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Though he often seems flat and pedantic in front of large crowds, Carter effectively conveys a soft-spoken reasonableness and decency in face-to-face talks. "If I ever lie to you, if I ever betray you, then I want you to leave me," he tells youthful supporters in New...
It's immaterial how much of "the real Hemingway" comes out in the play. Hunter clearly has an unimpeachable knowledge of the man's writing, and any argument would be a pedantic waste of time. But whoever Hemingway was he was human, and to demystify the hallowed name of a...
Died. Marion Frankfurter, 84, wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and a shrewd judge of issues and personalities in her own right; in a Washington, D.C., nursing home. A witty, no-nonsense Massachusetts girl, Marion Frankfurter was the editor of many of her husband's nonjudicial...
Love's Labor's Lost is an early comedy in which Shakespeare frolics with words. Sometimes they seem deliberately designed to be mockingly pedantic, zestful in excess. Then suddenly the master of language will yoke his dramatic poetry like a chariot to the sun.
The quality of the acting varies from the high level of Rebecca Goldman's taut portrayal of the schizophrenic Georgina and Ed Baran's glassy-eyed baby-talking Commodore to the awkward self-consciousness of some of the bit players. Demetrious Athens plays a detached and rather pedantic Basho and...