How To Use Pleonasm In A Sentence
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The neoplasm of my pleonasms gets my jelly in a righteous tart!
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‘Experimental fiction’ is a pleonasm.
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No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also
Autobiographical Sketches
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N+1 apes the old style of worthy Jewish intellectuals, alongside the old style of worthy Cyril-Connolly-style balanced intellectual survey—of the sort that recalls the Johnsonian pleonasm which opens “The Vanity of Human Wishes”—which treats all the artistic developments of all the separate countries of Europe as though they were worthy of serious consideration.
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No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also
Autobiographical Sketches
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Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
L'Univers de Chesterton
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Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
Chesterton et ses paradoxes
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The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.
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Passing to the second, not altogether insignificant, use of these words and distinctions, we sometimes find in the examination of a literary composition such remarks as follow: here is a pleonasm, here an ellipse, there a metaphor, here again a synonym or an equivoke.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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Apollonius takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
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So "dangerous aliene" is even a pleonasm, since an aliene is by definition completely and extrememly dangerous and has to be restrained at all time.
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The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.
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He takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
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No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either.
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Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
Chesterton et ses paradoxes
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And ‘hackneyed cliché’ is itself a pleonasm.
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For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate.
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The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
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‘Obsessive writer’ is a pleonasm if ever there was one.
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Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.
L'Univers de Chesterton
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He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.
