Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 64 hagiographic 58 hagiography 57 polemical 55 aphoristic 55 revisionist 54 parodic 53 tendentious 53 eminently readable 52 reverential 52 grandiloquent 51 orientalist 51 Kenneth Tynan 51 digressive 51 prolix 51 bathetic 50 Schama 50 adulatory 50 elided 50 reverent 50 polemic 50 self aggrandising 50 idiosyncratic 50 cliché ridden 49 Michiko Kakutani 49 Buruma 49 revelatory 49 novelistic 49 pastiche 49 historiography 49 Antonia Fraser 49 literary allusions 49 Jonathan Freedland 49 concision 49 splenetic 49 Gustave Flaubert 49 self reflexive 49 revisionism 49 philosophical musings 49 elegiac 49 trenchant 48 Nietzschean 48 meretricious 48 apologia 48 Le Carré 48 Garry Wills 48 mawkish 48 juvenilia 48 le Carré 48 incantatory 48 historicism 48 ahistorical 48 socialist realism 48 didacticism 48 mordant 48 minutely detailed 48 unreliable narrator 48 meticulously researched 48 self referential 48 historical revisionism 48 self flagellating 48 imagistic 47 narrative 47 jejune 47 miniaturist 47 refutations 47 reductive 47 gnomic 47 discursive 47 obtuse 47 iconoclasm 47 trenchantly 47 grotesqueries 47 J. Hoberman 47 didactic 47 Jonathan Schell 47 triumphalist 47 worshipful 47 florid 47 messianism 47 Sam Tanenhaus 47 Trevor Roper 47 prefaces 47 Niccolo Machiavelli 47 omniscient narrator 47 deconstructive 47 Joycean 47 literalism 47 Byronic 47 magical realist 47 explicating 47 exhaustively researched 47 essentialist 47 allegorical 47 Edward Gibbon 47 solipsistic 47 le Carre 47 laudatory 47 authorial 47 exegesis 47 mythmaking 47 pedantic