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etched 50 Chuang Tzu 50 Hemingway esque 50 mot juste 50 mimsy 50 wry asides 50 dull monotone 50 Delphic oracle 50 fussily 50 etiolated 50 witty urbane 50 multisyllabic 50 descriptive passages 50 Zen koans 50 recondite 50 dryly humorous 50 uninflected 50 Teabing 50 declarative sentences 50 rhyming verse 50 pedantic 50 self mythologizing 50 unpoetic 50 subjunctive 50 inscrutability 49 ineloquent 49 disobliging 49 bons mots 49 wordplays 49 verbose 49 Flann O'Brien 49 tautologies 49 diagrammatic 49 similes metaphors 49 perspicuity 49 self deprecatory 49 wordy 49 sidelong 49 FR Leavis 49 recherché 49 Leonardo Michelangelo 49 prosaic 49 eruditely 49 vaguely sinister 49 Nabokovian 49 Stephen Spender 49 schoolboyish 49 curlicued 49 sophist 49 Latinate 49 Beckettian 49 magus 49 lugubrious 49 liberally peppered 49 billet doux 49 precise diction 49 Wormtongue 49 Blakean 49 poeticism 49 deadpan 49 Holmesian 49 Pithy 49 lavatorial 49 Swiftian 49 profundities 49 etymologies 49 exhortatory 49 wonderfully eccentric 49 panegyric 49 po faced 48 essayistic 48 stylistic quirks 48 Hemingwayesque 48 post structuralist 48 waspish 48 poetic 48 Théophile Gautier 48 trivium 48 affectless 48 witty asides 48 marble mouthed 48 maundering 48 epigraphs 48 lugubriously 48 sneery 48 www.merriam webster.com 48 overfamiliar 48 minatory 48 longwinded 48 shlubby 48 esoteric 48 sketchily drawn 48 pedant 48 philosophic 48 Stilted 48 italicised 48 metafictional 48 Thomas Malory 48 sarcasms 48 Hillaire Belloc 48 Zen masters 48 cornucopian 48 Baudelaire 48 raffishly 48 Max Beerbohm 48 Kleinzahler 48 drollness 48 ishly 48 nod sagely 48 lumpish 48 elliptically 48 trenchant wit 48 Calasso 48 wry witty 48 spidery handwriting 48 diaristic 48 Hilaire Belloc 48 Hollywoodish 48 wry 48 reedy voice 48 enigmatic 48 literary allusion 48 whimsicality 48 koan 48 verbosely 48 omniscient narrator 48 faintly amused 48 willfully obtuse 48 abstract nouns 48 pellucid 47 spoonerisms 47 Myles na 47 philosophical musings 47 Pinter esque 47 fractured syntax 47 onomatopoetic 47 winkingly 47 flared nostrils 47 monotonal 47 quippy 47 hagiographical 47 literary allusions 47 Herzogian 47 stygian 47 pithiness 47 blancmange 47 Shavian 47 Pelevin 47 forsooth 47 Whiggish 47 terseness 47 Chaucerian 47 nonsense syllables 47 Cioran 47 quiddity 47 impenetrability 47 pedantry 47 lexis 47 pithy sayings 47 pompous 47 diphthongs 47 Godardian 47 mawkishly 47 self mythologising 47 gnomic utterances 47 punster 47 sly wit 47 sphinxlike 47 phrasal 47 versification 47 wonderfully droll 47 alliterative 47 taciturnity 47 solipsist 47 goatish 47 pointillistic 47 intellectuality 47 archaisms 47 subtly shaded 47 explications 47 jocose 47 Hogarthian 47 mush mouthed 47 creakily 47 deprecatory 47 monosyllable 47 wryness 47 monosyllables 47 lyric poetry 47 Joycean 47 dandyism 47 toneless 47 Maupassant 47 adenoidal 47 Lao Tse 47 commonplaces 47 bardic 47 decipherable 47 inscrutably 47 polysyllabic words 47 La Rochefoucauld 47 Percy Bysshe Shelley 47 Lees Milne 47 unforthcoming 47 scansion 47 Prufrock 47 characteristically 47 affably 47 Walter Pater 47 Mayan glyphs 46 discursive 46 pithier 46 ratlike 46 Yiddishisms 46 hyperarticulate 46 banal 46 owlish 46 Breathy 46 Dorothy Sayers 46 maddeningly vague 46 Queen Mab 46 studiedly 46 Shakespearean sonnet 46 Wellesian 46 dull witted 46 gnomish 46 Britishisms 46 compendious 46 flâneur 46 loquacity 46 cogito ergo sum 46 unclever 46 Edmund Blackadder 46 mealy mouthed 46 querulous 46 hifalutin 46 deliberately obtuse 46 What Maisie Knew 46 wordier 46 laconic wit 46 literary pretensions 46 mumbler 46 veddy British 46 sardonic grin 46 Alphonse Karr 46 Roman orator Cicero 46 bland generalities 46 floppy fringed 46 admonitory 46 controversialist 46 Coyly 46 Daliesque 46 comically absurd 46 flowery 46 foppish 46 flint eyed 46 blokeish 46 existentialist philosophy 46 Althusser 46 Socratic dialogue 46 cockney slang 46 intertextual 46 pursed lipped 46 humorous asides 46 unimprovable 46 Edmund Gosse 46 jabberwocky 46 solipsistic 46 maidenly 46 unintentionally humorous 46 elfish 46 platitudinous 46 Monkish 46 toe curlingly embarrassing 46 Byronic 46 spoonerism 46 Kierkegaard 46 lucid prose 46 beak nosed 46 verbs nouns 46 Wordsworthian 46 existentialists 46 vanitas 46 dustjacket 46 indecipherable 46 magisterially 46 cadenced 46 grandiloquence 46 Don Armado 46 Philosophical Investigations 46 Rancière 46 crotchets 46 Humbert Humbert 46 TS Elliot 46 Zen koan 46 chiasmus 46 bon mot 46 wordiness 46 oneiric 46 simple declarative 46 intellectualising 46 metrical 46 Dave Spart 46 jeu d' esprit 46 schoolmarmish 46 fabulism 46 rakish charm 46 unplaceable 46 AJP Taylor 46 baroquely 46 Russian Constructivism 46 captivatingly 46 gallimaufry 46 Greenspeak 46 hortatory 46 journalese 46 unquotable 46 sly 46 sestina 46 metafiction 46 expostulation 46 Parmenides 46 Monthy Python 46 cogitation 46 terza rima 46 Soren Kierkegaard 46 miserabilist 45 Julian Lopez Morillas 45 waffly 45 grim visage 45 ex cathedra 45 bathetic 45 heavy browed 45 portentous 45 flowery prose 45 barely intelligible 45 artspeak 45 woolly minded 45 non sequiturs 45 cantos 45 maladroit 45 interrogative 45 adjectives adverbs 45 Tommy Saxondale 45 lucent 45 instructively 45 contentless 45 sophistic 45 De Bernières 45 impenetrable jargon 45 punctiliousness 45 clubbable 45 tenebrous 45 glittering generality 45 waggish 45 Josipovici 45 Wildean wit 45 Dr Pangloss 45 Shakespearean sonnets 45 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 45 Brownism 45 Urdu couplets 45 nodding sagely 45 Tam o Shanter 45 GWF Hegel 45 drivelling 45 prose stylists 45 Ronald Firbank 45 keenly observant 45 Peevish 45 Pooh Bah 45 Dylanesque 45 jocular 45 clownishness 45 faintly absurd 45 Welsh lilt 45 versifying 45 gravelly baritone 45 prefatory 45 Bildungsroman 45 metaphors similes 45 unbearable lightness 45 Faulknerian 45 latterday 45 Chekhovian 45 oleaginous 45 Blandings Castle 45 Flippant 45 quasi mystical 45 epistolary 45 perorations 45 mordant wit 45 larky 45 charming scoundrel 45 Python esque 45 Cogito ergo sum 45 Self effacing 45 archness 45 Hieronymous Bosch 45 sibilant 45 fuddled 45 eloquent 45 dourness 45 stylistic tics 45 pernickety 45 fustian 45 layerings 45 beguiling 45 Lacanian 45 Nigel Farndale 45 clichéd 45 voluminous writings 45 logorrheic 45 Laughing Cavalier 45 deadpan wit 45 mono syllabic 45 Paxo 45 Kant Critique 45 billets doux 45 gobbledy gook 45 professorial demeanor 45 self aggrandising 45 Dessaix 45 prissily 45 sardonic 45 philosopher Blaise Pascal 45 lank haired 45 idiomatically 45 Runyonesque 45 chapter headings 45 Svevo 45 Arcimboldo 45 bromidic 45 meta theatrical 45 Picabia 45 furrow browed 45 split infinitives 45 Rabelaisian 45 pooka 45 wickedly clever 45 courtly manners 45 populariser 45 bon mots 45 pretentious 45 cogitations 45 Miesian 45 epigraph 45 Holy Sonnets 45 bowler hatted 45 doomy 45 epicene 45 fogeyish 45 thin lipped 45 apposite 45 punctuations 45 illustriously 45 adenoidal voice 45 chucklesome 45 ripely 45 weaselly 45 villanelle 45 Mumbling 45 alliterations 45 pompous ass 45 self dramatizing 45 unrevealing 45 nouveau roman 45 imperturbable 45 imperturbability 45 daft 45 unappealingly 45 subtly nuanced 45 Rimbaud 45 allusive 45 philosophe 44 Laurence Sterne 44 unornamented 44 incantatory 44 witty self deprecating 44 unspontaneous 44 stentorian 44 rapier sharp 44 serialist 44 le mot juste 44 anally retentive 44 puckish 44 straightfaced 44 nonliterary 44 elegiac tone 44 profundity 44 pince nez 44 bunyip 44 gaspingly 44 obituarists 44 humourlessness 44 meta fictional 44 soliloquies 44 witty quip 44 heavy lidded eyes 44 beautifully wrought 44 self parodic 44 garrulous 44 genteelly 44 loquacious 44 overdetermined 44 anodyne 44 wolfish grin 44 smartarse 44 Prince Myshkin 44 drolly 44 succinctness 44 unpretentiously 44 declamatory 44 demotic 44 Poprishchin 44 arioso 44 deconstructionist 44 bristling mustache 44 demandingly 44 dissonant harmonies 44 mathematical proofs 44 mimesis 44 throaty laugh 44 outrageous puns 44 Bushspeak 44 inexpressive 44 Moebius strip 44 Schubertian 44 self referential 44 Hieronymus Bosch painting 44 Algernon Swinburne 44 easily decipherable 44 witty retorts 44 Shakespeare sonnet 44 pithy phrases 44 impishness 44 Come hither 44 preternaturally wise 44 multisyllabic words 44 Aubrey Beardsley 44 overwrought prose 44 Homeric epic 44 drearily familiar 44 moony 44 Shakespere 44 monotoned 44 snappy repartee 44 Dude abides 44 Postmodernists 44 Mephistophelean 44 Paul Valéry 44 Seinfeld ian 44 beguilingly 44 philo 44 learnedly 44 Apollonian 44 euphonious 44 jargony 44 exquisitely rendered 44 vacuously 44 Johnsonian 44 satirical wit 44 intriguingly 44 stern visage 44 Ted van Griethuysen 44 cogito 44 quotable quotes 44 Mr Micawber 44 paraphrases 44 doom laden 44 sonorous tones 44 gobbledegook 44 blackly 44 Duchampian 44 pious platitudes 44 lawyerly 44 ironist 44 eyebrow arched 44 impassivity 44 Giacomo Casanova 44 diphthong 44 recurring motifs 44 monotone 44 Brooklynese 44 fanciful 44 philosophizing 44 artfully constructed 44 mirthless smile 44 hyperreal 44 articulacy 44 semiotician 44 unreliable narrators 44 Nietzche 44 lushly illustrated 44 Anglocentric 44 witty erudite 44 Pietro Aretino 44 mumblers 44 chromatic harmonies 44 gabbled 44 plummy tones 44 poncy 44 Mannerist 44 witty 44 puzzlements 44 Jacques Lacan 44 trickily 44 stylisation 44 vague generalities 44 loanwords 44 Brylcreemed 44 Romantic poet 44 politer 44 inelegance 44 geometer 44 crudities 44 barely comprehensible 44 monosyllabic responses 44 pretentiously 44 lip pursing 44 J Alfred Prufrock 44 loftily 44 declarative sentence 44 Georges Perec 44 Panglossian 44 dangling participles 44 stiff jointed 44 illuminatingly 44 situationists 44 pseudo intellectual 44 swivel eyed 44 philosophical ramblings 44 trenchant 44 deeply unfashionable 44 plainness 44 de Boinod 44 poet Charles Bukowski 44 Prosaic 44 operatics 44 guttersnipe 44 Borgesian 44 scattergun 44 literary masterpiece 44 Homeric 44 André Bazin 44 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 44 hippyish 44 eulogistic 44 disarmingly honest 44 curmudgeonliness 44 meta textual 44 Mobius strip 44 priests bullying schoolmasters 44 cunningly crafted 44 William Hazlitt 44 weighty tomes 44 kitchen sink realism 44 artlessly 44 supercilious 44 chthonic 44 Joyce Ulysses 44 mellifluously 44 De Quincey 44 Gustave Flaubert 44 garrulousness 44 Naughtie 44 obliqueness 44 readable prose 44 tic toc 44 Sir Leigh Teabing 44 elvish 44 sepulchral 44 Schopenhauer 44 jarring juxtapositions 44 phantasmic 44 flippant 44 Rainer Maria Rilke 44 Dr. Pangloss 44 indirectness 44 ungraspable 44 jibberish 44 apparent effortlessness 44 reproachful 44 quatrains 44 Freudian slips 44 prophetical 44 lisps 44 Decca Aitkenhead 44 lumbering gait 44 mellifluous 44 emotionally constipated 44 disarmingly 44 scrying 44 metaphorical 44 Wittgenstein 44 cloyingly sentimental 44 misplaced modifiers 44 semiotic 44 memento mori 43 easeful 43 eyebrowed 43 recurrent motifs 43 wideboy 43 unpunctuated 43 sophistical 43 rubicund 43 rheumy eyed 43 subjunctive mood 43 Mancunian accent 43 polymathic 43 Lao tzu 43 actressy 43 amusingly 43 preternaturally calm 43 dotty 43 impenetrably 43 plaintive tenor 43 facetiousness 43 glottal stops 43 simpering 43 clunky exposition 43 Falstaffian 43 rueful 43 Emily Brontë 43 self effacingly 43 Honoré Daumier 43 scally 43 AC Grayling 43 lyrical passages 43 RD Laing 43 marginalia 43 leonine 43 cockney rhyming slang 43 mildly irritating 43 mumble jumble 43 dwarfish 43 envoi 43 threnody 43 miserablism 43 lexicographical 43 elegant prose 43 insouciant charm 43 chuntering 43 philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 43 hymned 43 owlish glasses 43 ambivalences 43 gin swilling 43 Warholian 43 opaquely 43 mealymouthed 43 unfussed 43 amanuensis 43 Herman Hesse 43 M. Hulot 43 guilelessly 43 Bertie Wooster 43 scatty 43 Leonardo Mona Lisa 43 denotative 43 Masaccio 43 wickedly witty 43 Bertrand Russell 43 self indulgently 43 punning 43 locutions 43 Transylvanian accent 43 collective noun 43 Deadpan 43 Andre Gide 43 Freudianism 43 Edward Bulwer Lytton 43 thickly painted 43 laconic drawl 43 descriptive prose 43 darkly poetic 43 Germanic accent 43 modal melodies 43 AE Houseman 43 fuddle 43 self deprecatingly 43 gutteral 43 crossly 43 terminological 43 uncoloured 43 limn 43 winsomely 43 fussbudget 43 Maritain 43 mordantly 43 introspections 43 fey 43 eggheaded 43 geist 43 existentialist 43 René Descartes 43 Nesbø 43 disarmingly candid 43 Pérez Reverte 43 dogmatic 43 idiot savant 43 manqué 43 belabored 43 adamantine 43 Roland Barthes 43 bemusing 43 James Gillray 43 Rodin Thinker 43 unfailingly courteous 43 gallus 43 lovely jubbly 43 Whitmanesque 43 unadorned prose 43 Glass Bead Game 43 archetypal 43 Enlightenment philosopher 43 lobotomised 43 Melancholic 43 famous aphorism 43 stolidity 43 poet ee cummings 43 Judge Smails 43 jokey 43 diffident 43 pluckings 43 mysterium 43 de Maupassant 43 Christina Rossetti 43 Ernest Dowson 43 mountebank 43 Gericault 43 Puckish 43 lunkheaded 43 miserabilism 43 blithe 43 superciliously 43 impertinent 43 biblical quotations 43 passingly 43 refreshing antidote 43 Arthur Schopenhauer 43 cherishable 43 self flagellating 43 Žižek 43 multiphonics 43 wonderfully deadpan 43 philosophical 43 daftness 43 popinjay 43 Hugh Nees 43 Launcelot Gobbo 43 etymological roots 43 Thoreau Walden 43 intonations 43 extemporized 43 horn rimmed 43 Lady Teazle 43 hackneyed 43 poetic sensibility 43 monologuing 43 fleshless 43 cusswords 43 Scottish burr 43 Osbert Lancaster 43 overbearingly 43 eliding 43 Captain Haddock 43 choicer 43 unreliable narrator 43 archly 43 allusions 43 Arthur Rimbaud 43 Monsieur Jourdain 43 logicians 43 Biblical allusions 43 paraphrase 43 Dadaist 43 wiseass 43 disconcertingly 43 comfortingly familiar 43 mordant humor 43 irascible 43 autodidactic 43 succinct 43 MacNeice 43 Lasdun 43 Cibber 43 Bunthorne 43 cryptic lyrics 43 curt 43 superciliousness 43 Soames Forsyte 43 exasperatingly 43 repetitiously 43 silkily 43 Januszczak 43 idiomatic phrases 43 mardy 43 wryly amusing 43 gimlet eyed 43 René Magritte 43 dottiness 43 begetter 43 lordly 43 authorial 43 nasal whine 43 Grumpy Old Man 43 honeyed tones 43 bemused 43 undecipherable 43 Benjamin Disraeli 43 polymath 43 ye ken 43 gabble 43 phantasmal 43 philosopher Alain 43 sibilants 43 Saussure 43 lexicography 43 Pretentious 43 off puttingly 43 etymological 43 allegoric 43 Pompous 43 filigreed 43 blackhearted 43 crumpet 43 unsubtly 43 Flaubert