reiterative

The very repetition of the title suggests how any felon, post-prison, might try and fail to narrate his past, living out the future in a reiterative loop.

The reiterative slapstick can wear thin and certain performers seemed a bit shaky on their lines opening weekend.

One guitarist—Dominic James—played bright, reiterative figures in the style of Nigerian highlife; the other—Lionel Loueke—made piercing electric sounds.

The cracked-plate portrait is a powerful exception to the usual dynamics of photography, which is an essentially industrial, reiterative process.

Consider Judith Butler’s characterization of performativity as “that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains.”