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Paglia 47 Bernard Henri Lévy 47 astringently 47 coquettishness 47 strangely endearing 47 moralizing 47 sardonically funny 47 prolixity 47 orotund 47 obtuseness 47 paeans 47 literary allusion 47 Shavian 47 Louis Ferdinand Céline 47 plaintiveness 47 navel gazer 47 ripely 47 voluptuary 47 Humboldt Gift 47 Vile Bodies 47 rumination 47 idealization 47 weepy eyed 47 sarcastic quip 47 hectoring tone 47 encomium 47 blackly humorous 47 meaningless drivel 47 drollery 47 Hemingwayesque 47 commonplaces 47 blitheness 47 archaisms 47 prudery 47 fictionalized autobiography 46 heartrendingly 46 elegiac 46 geist 46 exhortatory 46 Nabokovian 46 maunderings 46 weepiness 46 lunacies 46 bildungsroman 46 Purity Myth 46 Wellesian 46 inarticulately 46 Indignation 46 guilelessly 46 rawly 46 Garet Garrett 46 wishfulness 46 longueur 46 Victorian prudery 46 Beckettian 46 Orwellian Newspeak 46 swooningly 46 dipsomaniac 46 side splittingly 46 philosophe 46 Dos Passos 46 Hermann Broch 46 syrupy ballad 46 apercus 46 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logorrhea 45 mawkish sentimentality 45 bathetic 45 twentysomething angst 45 Foreskin Lament 45 moral absolutists 45 autobiographer 45 crackpot realism 45 faux naif 45 archness 45 Bright Sided 45 Daphne Merkin 45 novelist Ayn Rand 45 prig 45 Jean Baudrillard 45 repulsively 45 teensiest bit 45 intellectual vacuity 45 melancholy 45 philosophising 45 self mythologising 45 Wildean 45 effete snob 45 melancholia 45 Whiggish 45 Weltschmerz 45 hyper literate 45 schoolyard taunt 45 Lysander Spooner 45 lugubrious 45 floridly 45 declinism 45 Humorless 45 Nihilism 45 spellbinder 45 forelock tugging 45 hedonistically 45 execration 45 Status Anxiety 45 moralizer 45 Beinhart 45 amour fou 45 Pathetically 45 jouissance 45 wryly humorous 45 intellectual elitism 45 Katie Roiphe 45 subversively funny 45 unsayable 45 elegaic 45 messianic pretensions 45 rambling incoherent 45 Coming Insurrection 45 spiritually bereft 45 Nirad Chaudhuri 45 Dada esque 45 fatuousness 45 emotional catharsis 45 Salmon Rushdie 45 harrumphs 45 self loathing 45 Ayn Randian 45 Ruders 45 Delingpole 45 Self indulgent 45 plonky 45 downright daft 45 poet ee cummings 45 facetiousness 45 dimwittedness 45 morally obtuse 45 jeu d' esprit 45 hymned 45 Dostoevskian 45 crashingly 45 Lytton Strachey 45 Antonia Fraser 45 essayistic 45 tongue clucking 45 darkly satirical 45 prudishly 45 rant 45 literal mindedness 45 Bombast 45 maudlin sentimentality 45 pungently 45 haunting ballad 45 pretentious twaddle 45 jauntiness 45 casuistry 45 encomia 45 Théophile Gautier 45 reproachful 45 Bonjour Tristesse 45 William Hazlitt 45 libber 45 righteously angry 45 J'Accuse 45 existentially 45 weepy melodrama 45 intellectual snob 45 Humbert Humbert 45 sordidly 45 milksop 45 VS Pritchett 45 Verging 45 transcendentally 45 philosophical ruminations 45 paen 45 unmelodic 45 Thus Spake Zarathustra 45 harlotry 45 Maupassant 45 J'accuse 45 crypto Nazi 45 Than Thou 45 veddy British 45 ambivalently 45 publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti 45 caterwaul 45 mordantly 45 curtness 45 incredulousness 45 acidulous 45 youthful ardor 45 Nancy Mitford 45 uninflected 45 Leon Wieseltier 45 denunciation 45 mumbler 45 finely nuanced 45 Utopianism 45 monomania 45 critic Susan Sontag 45 ponderousness 45 blaringly 44 autobiographically 44 jocular tone 44 buncombe 44 verbal tic 44 Self loathing 44 terminally bland 44 wimpiness 44 poetic verse 44 heart rendingly 44 Yiddish inflected 44 Tony Judt 44 soliloquy 44 yawp 44 cleareyed 44 flapdoodle 44 blithe 44 purposelessness 44 Wartime Prayers 44 obtusely 44 emotional outpourings 44 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 44 sly satire 44 closeted homosexuality 44 naïf 44 sneering condescension 44 jeremiads 44 denunciatory 44 screamingly funny 44 unblushing 44 posthumous memoir 44 philosopher Roger Scruton 44 Luddism 44 knavery 44 poeticism 44 mordant wit 44 Yasmin Alibhai Brown 44 queer theorists 44 reactionism 44 circumlocutions 44 Ginsberg Howl 44 bookishness 44 heartbreakingly beautiful 44 Johnsonian 44 Matt Continetti 44 toneless 44 stupefaction 44 Pietro Aretino 44 insipidness 44 banally 44 Wordsworthian 44 morally relativistic 44 maundering 44 sanctimony 44 Breathy 44 Unapologetically 44 Mr. Sammler Planet 44 purple prose 44 prose stylist 44 Melancholic 44 operatically 44 acoustic ballad 44 poetic imagery 44 blackly funny 44 philosophical treatises 44 dilettantish 44 wrenchingly 44 windbaggery 44 unspontaneous 44 unbearable poignancy 44 audaciousness 44 Sinkin Soon 44 onanistic 44 etiolated 44 easeful 44 stony hearted 44 Workingman Blues 44 gratingly 44 misogynist racist 44 cartoonishness 44 poignantly 44 JG Ballard Crash 44 attitudinizing 44 treatise 44 dispiritingly 44 bagatelles 44 Victorianism 44 snottiness 44 wanly 44 messianic fervor 44 noodlings 44 mythologising 44 Hillaire Belloc 44 Norman Lebrecht 44 Elaine Scarry 44 utopianism 44 bowdlerization 44 fulminations 44 Nussimbaum 44 intellectual pretensions 44 unflinching portrayal 44 cultureless 44 disagreeably 44 Jeanette Winterson 44 sneering disdain 44 Richard Brautigan 44 excelsis 44 Isadora Wing 44 aching tenderness 44 Spufford 44 dilettantism 44 panegyrics 44 characteristic candor 44 Orwellian doublespeak 44 sneering 44 deliciously ironic 44 emotionally constipated 44 unnamed narrator 44 philo Semitism 44 Bernard DeVoto 44 Sovietism 44 racist misogynistic 44 existentialist philosophy 44 Kleinzahler 44 poetic prose 44 wistful melancholy 44 Daniel Henninger 44 hortatory 44 Unknown Terrorist 44 quavery 44 discordantly 44 Bildungsroman 44 unadorned prose 44 overwrought 44 Hollywoodization 44 TS Eliot poem 44 ideologically blinkered 44 Sanctimonious 44 moralizers 44 intellectual incoherence 44 nouveau roman 44 philippic 44 apologias 44 reverie 44 infantilisation 44 unself conscious 44 gaucherie 44 philosophical musing 44 valediction 44 Hazel Motes 44 J Alfred Prufrock 44 demurrals 44 philosophical rumination 44 Whitmanesque 44 deliciously subversive 44 witty erudite 44 unbearable heaviness 44 existential emptiness 44 righteous rage 44 dissembler 44 Jonathan Freedland 44 shtik 44 Slavoj Žižek 44 ringingly 44 Cookbook Collector 44 twaddle 44 Roiphe 44 effervescently 44 messianism 44 whiny emo 44 apocalyptically 44 Righteously 44 repressed sexuality 44 amen chorus 44 rhapsodising 44 absurdism 44 plangent 44 affectless 44 artspeak 44 jug eared 44 melancholic 44 heartfelt ode 44 economist Murray Rothbard 43 prose 43 decidedly unfunny 43 stormily 43 limp dick 43 imprecation 43 Trumanesque 43 Noah Richler 43 historicism 43 dogmatist 43 hopelessly naïve 43 Ta Nehisi 43 schoolmasterly 43 devout atheist 43 Sartrean 43 Wanna Get Married 43 cravenness 43 vulgarization 43 poet Charles Bukowski 43 abjection 43 sophomoric antics 43 overbearingly 43 poisonously 43 Great Unraveling 43 perorations 43 sentimentalizing 43 affectionate portrait 43 goatish 43 rousingly 43 Mountstuart 43 strange juxtapositions 43 lamentation 43 monumentalism 43 existentialists 43 screed 43 Vendler 43 insiderism 43 tautology 43 solecism 43 forgivable sin 43 populist demagoguery 43 malignant narcissism 43 poet AE Housman 43 inanity 43 bitchily 43 economism 43 overweening pride 43 turgid prose 43 bohemianism 43 subtextual 43 abject despair 43 sonorously 43 Pelevin 43 Loony Left 43 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 43 timeless fable 43 philosopher Blaise Pascal 43 Ivan Ilyich 43 arioso 43 Carmen Callil 43 Kindly Ones 43 Alberto Manguel 43 fatuously 43 smug arrogant 43 wrongheadedness 43 Andrew Billen 43 philosopher Hannah Arendt 43 unashamedly sentimental 43 Undeclared War 43 Allen Ginsberg Howl 43 haughty disdain 43 libertinism 43 vapidness 43 Barney Hoskyns 43 gratuitous insult 43 romanticisation 43 mindless blather 43 scathingly funny 43 bleakly funny 43 mouthings 43 crudities 43 windiness 43 preachiness 43 Howard Zinn Noam Chomsky 43 cloyingly 43 loquacity 43 Terence Blacker 43 wistful longing 43 pretentious 43 Overwrought 43 prose poems 43 self abnegating 43 acidly funny 43 Feydeau farce 43 Ford Madox Ford 43 Edward Bulwer Lytton 43 epigram 43 everydayness 43 foam flecked 43 picaresque tale 43 rhymed verse 43 Holocaust revisionism 43 nasally whine 43 Anti intellectualism 43 commentator Charles Krauthammer 43 incantatory 43 authorial voice 43 Wildean wit 43 ambiguousness 43 Amusing Ourselves 43 Terry Eagleton 43 babblings 43 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 43 Faulknerian 43 materialism consumerism 43 post structuralist 43 abashedly 43 Natsuo Kirino 43 critique 43 Ennui 43 exegeses 43 weirdly 43 Josipovici 43 baleful influence 43 invective hurled 43 Hilzoy 43 lyrical evocation 43 Goldblog 43 perpetually aggrieved 43 grandiloquence 43 Baudrillard 43 delightfully irreverent 43 transfigures 43 Eaarth 43 joylessness 43 unremittingly bleak 43 loopily 43 Secular humanism 43 stingingly 43 priests bullying schoolmasters 43 Obamabots 43 critic Michiko Kakutani 43 novelist Evelyn Waugh 43 Safran Foer 43 gloriously 43 groveling apologies 43 weltanschauung 43 morally righteous 43 instructively 43 sententious 43 boiled boilerplate 43 Maurice Blanchot 43 standoffishness 43 Sneering 43 cringingly 43 pontification 43 populariser 43 Postmodernists 43 valorizes 43 Julia Kristeva 43 inane ramblings 43 Elshtain 43 intelligencia 43 punctiliousness 43 lachrymose 43 overemphatic 43 Roman orator Cicero 43 reprehensibly 43 overly melodramatic 43 sobfest 43 eruditely 43 lit crit 43 neurasthenic 43 scathing satire 43 familial discord 43 incoherent ramblings 43 bleatings 43 Cavafy 43 opus 43 Freudianism 43 Michael Dirda 43 off puttingly 43 ishly 43 rhapsodic 43 folie à deux 43 wholehearted embrace 43 repugnantly 43 musings 43 jejune 43 existential dread 43 utopian fantasies 43 felicitously 43 unself 43 intellectualism 43 André Gide 43 youthful idealism 43 non sequitor 43 Je ne regrette rien 43 philistinism 43 ungrammatically 43 Biblical allusions 43 Pinteresque 43 blokeish 43 commodity fetishism 43 moral exhibitionism 43 idiocracy 43 novelist Carl Hiaasen 43 TS Elliot 43 idee fixe 43 purblind 43 nonsensical ramblings 43 masterwork 43 tu quoque 43 cri du coeur 43 Anaïs Nin 43 ukase 43 onanism 43 famous aphorism 42 diabolism 42 existential angst 42 erudite 42 quasi Marxist 42 Christopher Lasch 42 self flagellating 42 pseudo intellectual 42 mirabile dictu 42 seethingly 42 fawning adulation 42 Ill Fares 42 boyishly charming 42 Condi Condi 42 Orwellian newspeak 42 doublethink 42 masturbatory fantasy 42 bitingly witty 42 pietism 42 Thom Gunn 42 humbuggery 42 blather 42 visceral revulsion 42 demurral 42 Anglophilia 42 conformism 42 nihilistic 42 Barbara Covett 42 searing critique 42 drivel 42 solicitousness 42 fetishisation 42 chick lit novel 42 sneering contempt 42 charmingly 42 mournfulness 42 Swiftian satire 42 eloquent 42 mealymouthed 42 drunken womanizer 42 puckish humor 42 cringeing 42 unnuanced 42 smug superiority 42 Imperial Bedrooms 42 squirmingly 42 rageful 42 mordant humor 42 roundelay 42 presumptuousness 42 corrosively 42 fin de siècle 42 Zen koan 42 elegant prose 42 ascerbic 42 Cusk 42 Unrequited Love 42 idyll 42 wry witty 42 Hölderlin 42 doomsaying 42 monkish 42 wordiness 42 determinist 42 tin eared 42 Annie Dillard 42 felicitous phrase 42 Gregor Samsa 42 bedazzlement 42 fractured syntax 42 Enlightenment philosopher 42 savage satire 42 hefty tome 42 grotesque caricature 42 rampant misogyny 42 Deirdre McCloskey 42 jabberwocky 42 Allen Ginsberg poem Howl 42 acerbically funny 42 teeth grindingly 42 Gustave Flaubert 42 Eminent Victorians 42 noxiously 42 overpraised 42 unignorable 42 utterly captivating 42 Unabashed 42 idée fixe 42 anti Semitic ravings 42 blithely ignorant 42 Alan Coren 42 officiousness 42 terseness 42 po mo 42 hero Holden Caulfield 42 existential musings 42 Beryl Bainbridge 42 instrumentalism 42 immortally 42 beautifully wrought 42 Taxi Driver Travis Bickle 42 Kay Hymowitz 42 romanticism 42 lyrical imagery 42 filthily 42 infelicities 42 wryness 42 melodiousness 42 tragicomic tale 42 Jean François Revel 42 mot juste 42 Dashwood sisters 42 wonkishness 42 fictionalisation 42 twitterings 42 blithely unconcerned 42 banality 42 pompus 42 Midge Decter 42 charlatanry 42 Kant Critique 42 heart wrenchingly 42 sweetly sung 42 poetic flourishes 42 paradox 42 postmodern irony 42 fictionalized memoir 42 doubleness 42 uncannily reminiscent 42 Gertrude Himmelfarb 42 dryly humorous 42 Transcendentalists 42 poetic 42 Tyrant Novel 42 insouciance 42 exultations 42 overpraise 42 unscholarly 42 sheer perversity 42 Daniel Radosh 42 jape 42 unimpeachably 42 musing 42 softheaded 42 garment rending 42 blackly 42 abidingly 42 toe curlingly 42 Sy Ableman 42 roguishness 42 neo isolationism 42 sunniness 42 mistitled 42 fawningly 42 platitudinous 42 Antonya Nelson 42 animality 42 stinging retort 42 Slouching Towards Bethlehem 42 Heilbroner 42 darkly witty 42 philosophes 42 lovelorn lyrics 42 David Riesman 42 tweeness 42 self righteous indignation 42 descriptive passages 42 beard stroking 42 sheepishness 42 verbally dexterous 42 danse macabre 42 Kristeva 42 deathless prose 42 neo Romantic 42 lovelorn ballad 42 woolly minded 42 QUENTIN LETTS 42 pontificator 42 claptrap 42 Stefan Collini 42 Anti Intellectualism 42 roman à clef 42 novelist essayist 42 anecdotage 42 unpunctuated 42 winsomely 42 onomatopoetic 42 Helen Vendler 42 oratorically 42 illogic 42 inwardness 42 Ernest Dowson 42 Sir Vidia Shadow 42 declamations 42 harrumph 42 dryly witty 42 introductory essay 42 sordidness 42 slyer 42 deracinated 42 Emma Brockes 42 Toni Cade Bambara 42 outrageous puns 42 Times reviewer Michiko 42 essentialism 42 pontifications 42 leeringly 42 Sven Birkerts 42 snide asides 42 piercingly 42 Percy Bysshe Shelley 42 mewl 42 perpetual adolescence 42 Achingly 42 Shake Shake Mama