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pleonastic

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Freely punctuated by repetitions, revisions, ums, ahs, and tantalizing silences, Cruz's delivery frayed the novel's already pleonastic story lines to the point of incomprehensibility, mutating the text into the rambling sound track of a thought process or even an esoteric act of self-pleasuring.
One encounters pleonastic use of the particle "or" in the writings of Plato and of the Greek orator Lysias (Liddell & Scott: 76 I).
He compares pleonastic "do" forms in the Elegy with Shakespeare's texts, finding a marked preference for such locutions in the poem.
 
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