Wallace refers to the Irish philosopher George Berkeley, whom he describes as "[...] a world-class pleonast [...]"

Unfortunately, this pleonasm of intentions muffles both word and musi

Christian Socialism' is pleonastic: nowadays you cannot hope for the fraternity which the Gospels preach without hoping that democratic governments will redistribute money and opportunity in a way that the market never will.

Many of my fellow philosophers use the term 'postmodernist relativism' as if it were a pleonasm

ease up on academic pleonasms, e.g., "employ" vs. "use", "explicate" vs. "explain",

Through the use of repeated action and pleonastic dialogue Bresson “doubles” (or even “triples”) the action, making a single event happen several times in different ways.