Gedge admits the group reacted to signing by subconsciously toughening up their sound and becoming even more pedantic.

While the English language was becoming daily more pedantic and inflexible, there was another dialect in the sister country, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I, from Chaucer.

There's also a danger of becoming pedantic or polemical if I ground it too firmly in our present condition.

Mr. Rosen writes thoughtfully without becoming pedantic; he engages himself personally without becoming radically subjective.

Among the changes in his performance over the last year, Mr. O'Hare said, is that the soliloquy has become less pedantic.

Her voice had become pedantic.