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In the quote today is the phrase "her riant smile ..." Is that not redundant?
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Yes, it is not redundant.
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Can you tell why not? It would be, according to the given definition: "her cheerful smile" or her "smiling smile".
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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 (Žor) friday
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Yes, that's very nice then , but you didn't yet have the smiling smile, did you? 
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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.
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Exceeding strange. Can one be riant without smiling? Or lachrymose sans tears? An unsmiling smile or a raint non-smile out-herods Herod himself.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Exceeding strange. Can one be riant without smiling? I've seen a smile without a riant but never a riant without a smile.
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Exceeding strange. Can one be riant without smiling? 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.
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