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studious 53 brilliant orator 53 Terry Eagleton 53 voluble 53 Self effacing 53 witty irreverent 53 Alberto Manguel 53 unpretentiously 52 dry witted 52 novelist essayist 52 cerebral 52 recondite 52 florid prose 52 wry 52 irenic 52 dispassionate 52 rebarbative 52 versifying 52 eminently quotable 52 Quick witted 52 bon vivant 52 sardonic 52 humourist 52 pretentious 52 unstuffy 52 enlightened 52 intellectually 52 lucid 52 scholarly 52 irascible 52 curmudgeonly 52 praiseful 51 egghead 51 gnomic 51 dryly humorous 51 Jeyifo 51 eminently likeable 51 scholarly tome 51 bons mots 51 Kleinzahler 51 mordantly witty 51 epigrammatic 51 Mark Kingwell 51 catholic tastes 51 engagingly 51 bookish 51 professorial demeanor 51 deadpan wit 51 voluminous writings 51 panegyric 51 Erudite 51 intellectual 51 armchair philosopher 51 witty self deprecating 51 Ashok Chakradhar 51 charming witty 51 silver tongued 51 suave debonair 51 polymathic 51 formidably intelligent 51 Hemingwayesque 51 wit 51 Gayatri Spivak 51 eminent 51 lilting accent 51 florid 51 acerbically 51 felicitous phrase 50 witticisms 50 Shavian 50 acerbic tongue 50 quotable quotes 50 William Hazlitt 50 incisive 50 Alexander Woollcott 50 likeable 50 Rabelaisian 50 sarcastic wit 50 Osundare 50 pseudo intellectual 50 autodidact 50 enlightening 50 AJP Taylor 50 lyrical prose 50 raconteurs 50 bon viveur 50 ascerbic 50 inquisitive 50 freethinker 50 unerring ear 50 wry witty 50 Calasso 50 inimitably 50 personable 50 Hemingway esque 50 pious 50 disarmingly frank 50 conversational prose 50 aperçus 50 Walter Pater 50 debonair 50 Wildean 50 polemical 50 Ali Mazrui 50 unexcitable 50 tapes Knocke 50 Helen Vendler 50 witty asides 50 laconic 50 humourists 50 quotable 50 good humored 50 post structuralist 50 intelligent 50 obtuse 49 schoolmasterly 49 jocular 49 disarmingly charming 49 philosopher theologian 49 mannerly 49 jeu d' esprit 49 tweedy 49 intellectually nimble 49 rhetoricians 49 biting wit 49 razor tongued 49 tweed jacketed 49 untutored 49 acutely perceptive 49 Self deprecating 49 literate 49 eccentric 49 witty prose 49 illuminatingly 49 Max Beerbohm 49 essayist 49 politically astute 49 teacherly 49 poetical 49 Ronald Firbank 49 dry wit 49 irrepressibly 49 aphorist 49 Eugenio Montale 49 delightfully witty 49 immensely readable 49 insouciant 49 esteemed 49 verbally dexterous 49 quotable quote 49 intellectualised 49 quippy 49 Xolela Mangcu 49 engaging conversationalist 49 gregarious 49 illuminative 49 brainy 49 Affable 49 charming 49 Irreverent 49 self deprecating 49 highbrow 49 poet philosopher 49 AJ Liebling 49 ineloquent 49 priests bullying schoolmasters 49 disarmingly 49 dapper 49 amusing 49 infectiously enthusiastic 49 conversationalist 49 poetic sensibility 49 rapier sharp 49 Arthur Danto 48 Niyi Osundare 48 Jacques Barzun 48 wordsmithery 48 Harold Nicolson 48 inexhaustibly 48 Harold Laski 48 dilettante 48 soi disant 48 formidable intellect 48 disputatious 48 Whitney Balliett 48 irreverent 48 authorial voice 48 entertainingly 48 boiled boilerplate 48 thought provoking 48 policy wonk 48 suave 48 Alfred Kazin 48 Nirad Chaudhuri 48 opinioned 48 blokeish 48 explications 48 companionable 48 bibulous 48 woolly minded 48 acidulous 48 self deprecatory 48 punster 48 flâneur 48 poetic 48 precise diction 48 graceful prose 48 Acerbic 48 disarmingly candid 48 philosophers 48 speechmaker 48 unpretentious 48 evocative prose 48 littérateur 48 elegant prose 48 intellectually stimulating 48 Alain Finkielkraut 48 sly wit 48 repartees 48 descriptive prose 48 sensualist 48 lucid prose 48 Robert Fagles 48 inarticulate 48 cogent 48 orator 48 poet novelist essayist 48 hyperarticulate 48 Bhikhu Parekh 48 forthright 48 windbag 48 philospher 48 linguistic inventiveness 48 Lionel Trilling 48 humorous asides 48 Horace Rumpole 48 perceptive observer 48 cantankerous 48 incisive wit 48 wryly humorous 48 metaphysician 48 intellects 48 emotionally constipated 48 VS Pritchett 48 razor sharp wit 48 famously loquacious 48 undogmatic 48 instructively 48 Julian Baggini 48 irreverant 48 Jug Suraiya 48 bitingly satirical 48 literary allusions 48 dull witted 48 Chuang Tzu 48 mannered 48 classicist 48 epigrams 48 polite 48 iconoclastic 48 Shakespearean scholar 48 hagiographer 48 Effete 48 dryly witty 48 eloquence 48 searchingly 48 bumptious 48 lexicography 48 Donald Barthelme 47 convivial 47 impeccably researched 47 unquotable 47 intellect 47 bon mot 47 Richard Rorty 47 Geoff Nunberg 47 foppish 47 wordy 47 insatiably curious 47 readable biography 47 Professor Amartya Sen 47 francophile 47 prepossessing 47 homespun wisdom 47 philosophical musings 47 side splittingly funny 47 wonderfully eccentric 47 Richard Brookhiser 47 versifier 47 poet dramatist 47 Loquacious 47 humanist philosopher 47 Pietro Aretino 47 ungifted 47 gnomic utterances 47 sarcastic 47 broadminded 47 Personable 47 ponderings 47 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 47 humorous 47 self depricating 47 medievalist 47 bookish intellectual 47 Francis Wheen 47 condescending 47 Schama 47 farceur 47 influentially 47 dyspeptic 47 moralist 47 urbane wit 47 characteristically 47 cobra tweeting 47 Whiggish 47 rara avis 47 expositor 47 wiseacre 47 pontification 47 suffer fools gladly 47 Ronald Dworkin 47 eminent historian 47 Frank Kermode 47 utterly charming 47 urbanely 47 courtly gentleman 47 callow 47 satirist 47 wittiness Squire 47 acerbic wit 47 temperamentally unsuited 47 expostulation 47 mordantly 47 transcendentalist 47 perorations 47 TH Huxley 47 trenchant wit 47 succinct 47 Delingpole 47 Mukul Kesavan 47 Still Siripat described 47 Edmund Gosse 47 mild mannered 47 Myles na 47 intellectual acuity 47 famous aphorism 47 refreshingly candid 47 eggheaded 47 cogitations 47 mirthful 47 archly 47 po faced 47 nostalgist 47 Hilaire Belloc 47 Prodigiously 47 witticism 47 stingingly 47 detribalised 47 dadaist 47 eminence gris 47 pontifications 47 Eminent Victorians 47 sharp tongued 47 Biodun Jeyifo 47 postulations 47 philosopher Roger Scruton 47 Wole Soyinka Chinua Achebe 47 humourous 47 gentlemanly 47 repartee 47 Victor Navasky 47 grammarian 47 anally retentive 47 Elaine Showalter 47 Mortimer Adler 47 effete 47 André Glucksmann 47 artless 47 autodidactic 47 melodist 47 Femi Osofisan 47 culturally literate 47 Oxbridge educated 47 unassuming 47 characteristically understated 47 wittier 47 characteristic candor 47 Cesare Beccaria 47 Edith Sitwell 47 aw shucks charm 47 disarming candor 47 equanimous 47 pseudo philosophical 47 charismatic 47 picaresque novel 47 panegyrics 47 astute observer 47 Tunku Varadarajan 47 Okey Ndibe 47 Andre Bazin 46 Bertrand Russell 46 mien 46 studiedly 46 splenetic 46 dandyish 46 poesy 46 Reuben Abati 46 intellectual pretensions 46 sesquipedalian 46 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 46 Yiddishisms 46 farseeing 46 Oxfordian 46 Oxonian 46 Kant Critique 46 self dramatizing 46 essayist poet 46 wonderfully idiosyncratic 46 formidable debater 46 impertinent 46 nerdish 46 Sir Vidia Naipaul 46 mumbler 46 extempore 46 existentialist philosopher 46 impassioned 46 lucid exposition 46 lugubrious 46 irresistibly charming 46 grumbler 46 Falstaffian 46 poet 46 intemperate 46 Claudia Dey 46 sketchwriter 46 wry wit 46 frock coated 46 Neville Cardus 46 intellectually rigorous 46 FR Leavis 46 sly 46 thoughtful considerate 46 mellifluous 46 epicure 46 Succinct 46 witty acerbic 46 Eric Hobsbawm 46 fogeyish 46 recherché 46 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 46 witty insightful 46 prig 46 jovial 46 theologian 46 autobiographer 46 abstruse 46 Anglophilic 46 beatnik poet 46 affably 46 Jürgen Habermas 46 Ernest Gellner 46 verbal repartee 46 dryly funny 46 mordant humor 46 scrupulously researched 46 wryly observed 46 impeccable manners 46 wickedly satirical 46 impish 46 smart aleck 46 Vendler 46 snappy repartee 46 Ojaide 46 maunderings 46 darkly witty 46 ardent admirer 46 howlingly funny 46 grandiloquent 46 rumpled 46 scholarly essays 46 maladroit 46 Malcolm Muggeridge 46 Maupassant 46 perspicacity 46 diffident 46 wickedly clever 46 faux naif 46 panjandrum 46 bon mots 46 quiet studious 46 Jacques Derrida 46 Gunnar Myrdal 46 aperçu 46 jocose 46 locutions 46 literary pretensions 46 curmudgeon 46 sarcasms 46 willfully obtuse 46 statesman 46 gifted communicator 46 smartest funniest 46 courtliness 46 Stephen Spender 46 refreshingly frank 46 cultured despisers 46 mordant 46 Andre Gide 46 philosophic 46 preternaturally calm 46 hyper literate 46 wry observational 46 decorous 46 Don Armado 46 Beppe Severgnini 46 cogitation 46 edifying 46 penetratingly 46 thinkers 46 skilled orator 46 cuttingly 45 smarmily 45 Irascible 45 Laurence Sterne 45 youngish 45 exegeses 45 musings 45 juvenilia 45 courtly manners 45 le mot juste 45 ruminations 45 Piers Brendon 45 pricelessly 45 idiosyncratic 45 raffish 45 waggish 45 Kenneth Rexroth 45 uncynical 45 epicene 45 Jesuitical 45 sardonic humor 45 wicked wit 45 Dr Pangloss 45 poet essayist 45 thinker philosopher 45 uncurious 45 ebullient 45 patrician 45 garbled syntax 45 boulevardier 45 tactful 45 Basbanes 45 Theodore Zeldin 45 Niccolò Machiavelli 45 popularizers 45 effervescently 45 eloquent orator 45 wonderfully droll 45 novelist Ayn Rand 45 Elif Batuman 45 precociously 45 Herzogian 45 pithy observations 45 wry asides 45 delphic 45 priggish 45 Lloyd Geering 45 childlike awe 45 solipsistic 45 uninflected 45 commonsensical 45 Gianni Vattimo 45 intellectual snob 45 bien pensant 45 éminence grise 45 loftily 45 mawkish sentimentality 45 Jean François Revel 45 slangy 45 guttersnipe 45 adroit 45 De Quincey 45 poetic prose 45 excitable 45 deadpan 45 Kenny Shopsin 45 stolidity 45 English Dictionary defines 45 uncouth 45 genial demeanor 45 Jacob Burckhardt 45 expostulated 45 deconstructionist 45 self deprecatory humor 45 courtly 45 puckish 45 Jed Perl 45 pentameter 45 querulous 45 intricate wordplay 45 rapier wit 45 pseudo intellectualism 45 likable 45 Stefan Collini 45 stentorian 45 lovable curmudgeon 45 anthologist 45 essayistic 45 exhaustively researched 45 culturalist 45 Paul Ricoeur 45 Ponderous 45 picaresque tale 45 witty repartee 45 profundities 45 Roman orator Cicero 45 trenchant observations 45 anecdotage 45 essayist novelist 45 consummately 45 likeable chap 45 scathingly funny 45 semiotician 45 intriguer 45 goatish 45 de Maupassant 45 gadabout 45 sphinxlike 45 unflaggingly 45 chin stroking 45 begetter 45 eminently likable 45 intellectuality 45 faintly amused 45 chatty 45 GWF Hegel 45 Hubert Dreyfus 45 Verrier Elwin 45 Francois Rabelais 45 nonpareil 45 Chips Channon 45 saturnine 45 intellectually incurious 45 intellectually deficient 45 iconoclast 45 wittiest 45 worldly wise 45 Elizabethan playwright 45 fey 45 haughty 45 off puttingly 45 Maritain 45 Sean Wilentz 45 cleareyed 45 soft spoken 45 Baruch Spinoza 45 longwinded 45 Evelyn Waugh 45 Alphonse Karr 45 AV Dicey 45 Prof Ali Mazrui 45 Inimitable 45 taciturn 45 rugged outdoorsman 45 Ruth Wisse 45 Alan Coren 45 Yasmin Alibhai Brown 45 Kenneth Tynan 45 succint 45 lit crit 45 Walter Brueggemann 45 overbearingly 45 wry self deprecating 45 screamingly funny 45 self mythologising 45 humorless 45 Miles Kington 45 Satirist 45 gifted orator 45 articulateness 45 entertaining 45 affectionate portrait 45 unpoetic 45 raffishly 45 wryly amusing 45 Cioran 45 unacademic 45 enigmatic 45 Ian Buruma 45 archaisms 45 circumlocutions 45 Buruma 45 Thought provoking 45 Tristram Hunt 45 stony hearted 45 satirical wit 45 affable approachable 45 witty wordplay 45 doggerel 45 Ved Mehta 45 po mo 45 self mythologizing 45 bespectacled 45 Pithy 45 sophist 45 Eliot Weinberger 45 writer Fran Lebowitz 45 avant gardism 44 mush mouthed 44 unsentimental 44 Ramachandra Guha 44 Elaine Scarry 44 intellectual snobs 44 Boyd Tonkin 44 existentialist philosophy 44 percipient 44 lyric poetry 44 bitingly witty 44 conversationalists 44 Romantic poets 44 WC Heinz 44 Marx Freud 44 geekish 44 snobbish 44 natty dresser 44 amanuensis 44 mumbly 44 IK Gyasi 44 spellbinder 44 prolixity 44 Chimamanda 44 versification 44 metier 44 Wickedly funny 44 profundity 44 Pérez Reverte 44 Chandleresque 44 Sadanand Menon 44 Neal Ascherson 44 digressive 44 mordant wit 44 Dave Spart 44 spectacled 44 Pugnacious 44 Puckish 44 Louis Ferdinand Céline 44 Macebuh 44 knowledgable 44 sanctimonious 44 Lees Milne 44 romanticist 44 Andre Glucksmann 44 satirist PJ O'Rourke 44 GH Hardy 44 Lopate 44 Gregarious 44 gifted wordsmith 44 verbosely 44 Marxist philosopher 44 Peter Ackroyd 44 Lispector 44 poet Archibald MacLeish 44 quipster 44 semi literate 44 Fran Lebowitz 44 Alain Badiou 44 Edmund Husserl 44 mot juste 44 monomaniac 44 plummy 44 theories propounded 44 lyric poet 44 charmingly self deprecating 44 utopian socialist 44 dandified 44 hilariously funny 44 charismatically 44 garrulousness 44 dilettantism 44 personage 44 flowery prose 44 Wieseltier 44 Jean Bethke Elshtain 44 introspective 44 reproachful 44 plummy voiced 44 Lacanian 44 bookishness 44 caustic wit 44 Dom Moraes 44 gimlet eyed 44 waspishly 44 poetries 44 logicians 44 epigram 44 Camille Paglia 44 admonitory 44 encyclopaedic 44 bewhiskered 44 droll humor 44 ingenuousness 44 Søren Kierkegaard 44 politer 44 Wordsworth Coleridge 44 disarmingly honest 44 philosopher Spinoza 44 terseness 44 soigné 44 endearing 44 declarative sentences 44 Terence Kealey 44 Mabel Segun 44 rejoinders 44 squirmingly 44 pamphleteer 44 frank 44 theologian philosopher 44 circumlocution 44 bhadralok 44 Ralf Dahrendorf 44 Heidi Julavits 44 wry observation 44 Maxime Rodinson 44 Franz Fanon 44 irreproachably 44 obituarist 44 Times Literary Supplement 44 Upendra Baxi 44 sonorous 44 polymaths 44 outsize ego 44 novelist playwright 44 novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne 44 cogently 44 ripely 44 Eminently 44 Germanic accent 44 Sam Tanenhaus 44 journalist Christopher Hitchens 44 cloth eared 44 Flann O'Brien 44 Márai 44 self deprecating wit 44 philosopher Edmund Burke 44 sophomoric antics 44 novelist Evelyn Waugh 44 pompously 44 sagacity 44 Stephen Pinker 44 indefatigable 44 Plainspoken 44 bitingly funny 44 sybarite 44 unimpeachable integrity 44 eccentrics 44 equable 44 drollness 44 Meghnad Desai 44 immensely likeable 44 technically adroit 44 fusspot 44 miserabilist 44 unworldliness 44 Anatole Broyard 44 pugnacity 44 epiphanic 44 jazz aficionado 44 AC Grayling 44 Bernard DeVoto 44 Gertrude Himmelfarb 44 outrageously funny 44 oracular pronouncements 44 Louis Althusser 44 condescends 44 Fernand Braudel 44 Helon Habila 44 revealingly 44 laceratingly 44 Achille Mbembe 44 astute politician 44 Kant Hegel 44 biographer 44 refreshingly honest 44 Théophile Gautier 44 Ivan Illich 44 rabble rousing 44 eternally boyish 44 Laurie Colwin 44 hagiographical 44 Linton Kwesi Johnson 44 congenial 44 self referentially 44 extroverted 44 philosophising 44 Alison Lurie 44 prophetical 44 persuasive 44 nuanced 44 pompous asses 44 latterday 44 bilious 44 eulogistic 44 Pascal Bruckner 44 Sunil Khilnani 44 Mencken 44 Joe Sobran 44 Ashbery 44 Roger Scruton 44 institutionalist 44 learnedly 44 nincompoop 44 declarative sentence 44 treatises 44 Theodore Roszak 44 unpartisan 44 grammatically challenged 44 sagest 44 philosopher statesman 44 orators 44 hardboiled 44 funny 44 Svevo 44 polysyllabic 44 agreeably 44 enunciations 44 Ferdinand de Saussure 44 lacerating wit 44 empiricist 44 novelist Margaret Drabble 44 loquacity