Surely this is an interesting document. The last Pagan Greek prayer, I believe, which we have on record; the death-wail of the old world--not without a touch of melody. One cannot altogether admire the style; it is inflated, pedantic, written, I fear, with a considerable consciousness that he was saying the right thing and in the very finest way: but still it is a prayer. A cry for light--by no means, certainly, like that noble one in Tennyson's "In Memoriam:"英文原著 · 《Alexandria and her Schools》
"I fear I was sadly pedantical," said I, overcome with confusion at the memory. "You are only to consider I am quite unused with the society of ladies."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
Her mother had blamed her for learning Latin and osteology. "Why should a woman be ignorant?" she asks. "Can she not be well educated without this spoiling her and without being pedantic? Supposing that I should have sons in the future, and that I had profited sufficiently by my studies to be able to teach them, would not a mother's lessons be as good as a tutor's?"英文原著 · 《George Sand》
Izaak, of course, justifies us by the example of the primitive Christians, and, in the manner of the age, drowns opposition in a flood of erudition, out of place, but never pedantic; futile, yet diverting; erroneous, but not dull.英文原著 · 《Introduction to The Compleat Angler》
Ay; 'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. I hope you are secret in your nature: private, close, ha?英文原著 · 《Love for Love》
Hey, look, I don't need you getting all judgemental and condescending and pedantic.美剧 · 《Friends》
But we were never like "going out." Okay, not to be pedantic, but last I checked "went out" was in fact the past tense of "going out"-- Which I think we all know is a popular euphemism For "saw each other naked." I'll just roll for you.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》