(3), if one takes an uncharitable attitude towards it, is simply meaningless:
probably one could work out its intended meaning by reading the whole of
the article in which it occurs. In (4), the writer knows more or less what he
wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea leaves
blocking a sink.In (5), words and meaning have almost parted company.
People who write in this manner usually have a general emotional meaning —
they dislike one thing and want to express solid