Originally Posted By: Hydra
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The pretentiousness adumbrated in that list emerges with febrile ostentation

That is tautological, IMO.

It makes more sense if I supply the whole sentence:
The pretentiousness adumbrated in that list emerges with febrile ostentation in “The Gulf of Time,” Mr. Lapham’s lengthy “Preamble.”
It doesn't exactly deserve the label tautological because the pretentiousness in the list is, apparently, only adumbrated; that in the preamble, on the contrary, is febrile.

Last edited by jotham; 12/14/2007 12:50 PM.