To my taste, nothing demolishes a novel, a film or a play faster than a pedantic tone.

"Gladly," Warren said, his voice taking on a very pedantic tone.

Oghma frowned severely, and his voice took on a decidedly pedantic tone.

His voice took on a pedantic tone again.

"I've been trying to trace the boy," the younger man said, his voice taking on the pedantic tone of an archivist.

His voice assumed a high, pedantic tone, each word enunciated with loving clarity.

"People sense he's insane," Thurlow said, his voice unconsciously taking a pedantic tone.

To his surprise, it was the Vulcan who replied, in the crisp pedantic tones of an academy professor.

"This generation would be strong enough," said Lunzie in her pedantic tone, "but not the next."

If only your heart were for sale he began, in his most pedantic tone.