In the quote today is the phrase "her riant smile ..." Is that not redundant?
Stuart Showalter

Yes, it is not redundant.

Can you tell why not? It would be, according to the given definition: "her cheerful smile" or her "smiling smile".

not wanting to steal Faldo's thunder here, but redundancy is our intimate friend.

sad smile - 317,100 gh
cheerful smile - 67,100 gh

-joe (Þor) friday

Yes, that's very nice then , but you didn't yet have the smiling smile, did you?

Yes, there are different kinds of smiles. There's the sardonic smile, of course. A self-conscious smile. A smug smile (a smirk). A contemptuous smile (a sneer). A ready smile. A wistful smile. And I might even admit of a sad smile. But a riant smile? NO! As BranShea said, that means a smiling smile, and up with that I will not put.

Exceeding strange. Can one be riant without smiling? Or lachrymose sans tears? An unsmiling smile or a raint non-smile out-herods Herod himself.

maybe it's a ron smile.

I've seen a smile without a riant but never a riant without a smile.

Well then, get glasses.

A smile is not a laugh and a laugh is not a smile.
Radiating happiness and beaming pleasure doesn't require a smile.

Gee Whiz, can you not be happy without a smile?
No?
Good, let's play poker.

Curioser and curioser.

>>Yes, there are different kinds of smiles.<<
I guess there are as many sorts of smiles as people have moods and motivations.
Thus so many adjectives can be attached to it. The servile smile, the empty smile, the seductive smile, the 'nothing but a smile', the faint smile, the feigned smile. There is hardly an end to it.