Sentence examples for Pleonastic from inspiring English sources

Certainly the speech he delivered in Chicago is a pleonastic masterpiece, distinguished not only by a high proportion of "Ands" but also by the frequency with which he repeated himself verbatim and the artful proliferation of synonyms- Sorrow and disynonyms- Sorrow and silently,""force andistress power"...not to mention "law and order," which he used three times.

And I wasn't very invested in my study of the language initially, because the subjects about which I was passionate were math and physics, at which I was very good, while French, with its unfamiliar sounds and gendered nouns and pleonastic ne's, seemed perversely illogical and therefore extremely difficult.

Its full, waffly title is "British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age", which is a pleonastic way of saying "here be new things".

Alex Byrne calls this the "pleonastic sense of 'concept'" (Byrne 2005).

We will here discuss only Stephen Schiffer's (2003) theory of "pleonastic propositions".[8] Propositions exist, for Schiffer, but unlike rocks or cats, there is nothing more to them than what our concept of a proposition guarantees.

An original account of the possibility of entertaining true thoughts about non-existent objects, based on the contrast between pleonastic (or representation-dependent) and non-pleonastic (natural or substantial) properties, has been developed by Crane (2013).

However, he also sets out to show that such ontologies are not merely pleonastic, but also that an alternative account can be given free of all the difficulties mentioned.