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The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
I am being pedantic and hypercritical, but it does seem that a book of only 63 pages could have been done a little more carefully.
The Dictionary of American Biography is rather more blunt: His style was too subject to his own criticism to be natural; it was selfconscious and pedantic.
They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.