Use "tautological" in a sentence

1. I know that’s tautological, now you get the picture, that’s how tired I was

2. Because Macmillan continually criticized me via phone, letter, and fax despite his receiving glowing reports about my performance from Admirals McGarrah and Martin, and Captains Passantino and Shafer, in the “front office,” and from all three of my ACOs—Platt, Krummel, and Schroeder—urging my promotion for purposes of retaining me, Macmillan and Kominers both continued to deny my promotion to -14, at one point raising the tautological point that because Pressly worked in OOX, I no longer had the required “direct report

3. tautological sense, the theories that I use because they are there and part of me

4. “Meritocracy is based upon what a culture values, and if it values moneymaking, then it is a pornocracy: the eroticization of the tautological privilege of meriting reward and rewarding merit – 'I deserve what I earned, because they value what I did; therefore what I did is valuable