1, But this is hair-splitting as an art form.

2, It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.

3, This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting.

4, This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.

5, They didn't take his hairsplitting seriously.

6, But the arid legal hairsplitting that dominates that chamber poses fewer policy problems than the messier lower courts do.