The over-use occurs in the sentence Martin use during his primary school days. No doubt it’s ornate (just as much of Obama’s speeches might be), but the message is not exactly blurred out if you’re using for certain context, especially for story-telling.

In the subsequent examples, Martin cites the repetitive descriptive effect that certain adjectives have when coupled with particular nouns. Indeed, certain noun have got inherent implicit descriptions that allows them to be used without the adjective. Some others would be ‘troublesome trouble’, ‘lazy sloth’, ‘really true’. The use of ‘super’, ‘very’, ‘extremely’ and other degree-indicators are particularly problematic because it pushes the English Language towards extremes.

For more of these, you could try reading The Complete Plain Words…