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Ten years in the writing, laced with a wide but unpedantic range of quotation and allusion, Nature and Culture sets the paintings in full light against a panoramic ground of ideas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oddly unpedantic judgment was prompted by a concert last week in Rome's isth century Palazzo Pio.

From Time Magazine Archive

Evening Standard.—"The author ... writes not only out of the fulness of his knowledge, but in a pleasant unpedantic style."

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

These and such-like amusing anecdotes show the genuine and unpedantic side of Shelley's character, the delightfully natural and loveable personality which is ever allied to genius.

From Mrs. Shelley by Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown

And with this tolerant and unpedantic frame of mind I am in hearty accord.

From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by Presland, John