English-German translations for hair-splitting

• Haarspalterei die
  Die Einstellungen von Frau Scallon und Präsident Bush beruhen auf herzloser, theologischer Haarspalterei, die lebensfremd ist. The attitude of Mrs Scallon and President Bush is based on heartless, theological hair-splitting which has nothing to do with life.

Definition of hair-splitting

• the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people

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