| Rather, through his pleonastic use of quietness, Mahler seems here to score a parody of sentimentality. |
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| Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use. |
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| But the concept of free action would seem to be pleonastic on the analysis of freedom in terms of the ability to get what one wants. |
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| 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. |
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| It is pleonastic, then, to talk about the damage that the brand image is subjected to? |
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| In this book he aims to resuscitate the face-value theory with an account of propositions as pleonastic entities. |
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| Meanwhile, wrong-footed by globalisation's pleonastic cavalry, culturalists wallow in moral confusion and intellectual exhaustion. |
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| We have had bioethics, biomedicine, a fair few neologisms and pleonastic expressions, and now we have biotechnology, or the technological exploitation of living processes, with all the artificiality that this entails. |
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| A dummy pronoun, also called an expletive pronoun or pleonastic pronoun, is a pronoun used for syntax without explicit meaning. |
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| To the contrary, Robbins resorted to such pleonastic phraseology as a means of emphasizing the inscrutability of these data and their modes of change to the theorist. |
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