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The other five finalists of this year's program include Sand by Alvin Easter (USA), The Breadwinner by Robert Heydon (Canada), Pleonastic by Samuel Kiehoon Lee (Korea), Tafahum by Omar Saleh (Jordan) and Jose by Michael Rousselet and Erik Sandoval (USA).
Meanwhile, wrong-footed by globalisation's pleonastic cavalry, culturalists wallow in moral confusion and intellectual exhaustion.
In Book 6, Deiphobus, appearing as a mangled ghost, has "populataque tempora raptis auribus" (a phrase breathy with short a-sounds), literally "ravaged temples and ears stolen away" Do you meld a doubled, pleonastic expression into something simple, raping Virgil's style to get a trouble-free twentieth-century-sounding one?
 
 
 
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