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descriptive prose 51 darkly 50 didacticism 50 tragi comic 50 Pinteresque 50 mirthful 50 overfamiliar 50 humorlessness 50 Swiftian 50 Panglossian 50 darkly comedic 50 florid 50 blithe 50 cleareyed 50 waspish 50 ironic detachment 50 melancholic 50 bathetic 50 jaunty 50 writerly 50 picaresque 50 postmodernist 50 melodramatic 50 rebarbative 50 splenetic 50 seriocomic 50 acerbity 49 jeu d' esprit 49 existentialist 49 sententious 49 bleakly funny 49 uproarious 49 wry humor 49 satirical 49 hagiographic 49 satire 49 blackly funny 49 mordantly 49 self referential 49 banal 49 impassivity 49 terseness 49 reductive 49 witty asides 49 faux naif 49 Shavian 49 Kubrickian 49 epigrammatic 49 concision 49 self deprecatory 49 grand guignol 49 nostalgist 49 cartoonishness 49 subtextual 49 triteness 49 serio comic 49 revelatory 49 stingingly 49 mawkish sentimentality 49 ruminative 49 fabulism 49 wistful 49 pastiche 49 baleful 49 bleakly 49 witty urbane 49 prose 49 finely nuanced 48 darkly humorous 48 maudlin 48 knockabout farce 48 formalist 48 lyrical prose 48 jokey 48 unaffecting 48 veers dangerously close 48 coruscating 48 darkly funny 48 self reflexive 48 insouciant 48 elegaic 48 Faulknerian 48 wickedly funny 48 psychologically astute 48 novelistic 48 ironist 48 Dostoyevskian 48 rumination 48 impressionistic 48 clever quips 48 hagiographical 48 satirical wit 48 grotesquerie 48 Felliniesque 48 unerring ear 48 lacerating wit 48 Wellesian 48 darkly satirical 48 wryly amusing 48 po mo 48 jokiness 48 caustic wit 48 Bergmanesque 48 larky 48 miserablism 48 witty acerbic 48 Herzogian 48 sly humor 48 overwrought 48 self mythologising 48 noirish 48 laceratingly 48 Absurdist 48 jejune 48 polemical 48 whimsicality 47 boiled boilerplate 47 Dostoevskian 47 wonderfully nuanced 47 morose 47 dyspeptic 47 bleakly comic 47 sly wit 47 mawkishness 47 affectless 47 darkly poetic 47 bitingly sarcastic 47 surrealism 47 wickedly satirical 47 artless 47 shtik 47 discursive 47 wry observational 47 smirky 47 nihilist 47 uninflected 47 banality 47 wry understated 47 unpoetic 47 sarcastic 47 profundity 47 Donald Barthelme 47 screamingly funny 47 searingly honest 47 unironic 47 clichéd 47 richly atmospheric 47 wry witty 47 longueur 47 roundelay 47 sardonically funny 47 incantatory 47 grippingly 47 rapier sharp 47 humorless 47 staginess 47 wryness 47 bravura 47 postmodern 47 lachrymose 47 humorous 47 admonitory 47 didactic 47 antiheroic 47 howlingly funny 47 intellectual pretensions 47 side splittingly funny 47 digressive 47 prolix 47 side splittingly 46 Freudian 46 whimsy 46 saturnine 46 acidulous 46 pointillist 46 Kleinzahler 46 cynical 46 postmodern irony 46 orotund 46 evocative prose 46 urbane wit 46 gutbucket 46 metafiction 46 dullness 46 limns 46 superciliousness 46 darkly hilarious 46 ruefulness 46 praiseful 46 aestheticized 46 absurdist comedy 46 Nigger Factory social 46 '#s psychedelia 46 nuanced 46 droll deadpan 46 Odets 46 stagy 46 Rabelaisian 46 pungent 46 mush mouthed 46 lyricism 46 elegiac tone 46 decidedly unfunny 46 screwball romance 46 coda 46 Maeterlinck 46 beautifully nuanced 46 dour 46 witty wordplay 46 Grand Manner 46 mirthless 46 expressionistic 46 ascerbic 46 Sophoclean 46 literal minded 46 unheroic 46 achingly funny 46 unimprovable 46 affectionate portrait 46 turgid 46 Kenneth Tynan 46 scathingly funny 46 Self referential 46 arioso 46 overemphatic 46 Nabokovian 46 miserabilism 46 suffuses 46 saccharine 46 dryly witty 46 unadorned prose 46 Dos Passos 46 Hemingwayesque 46 mystical mumbo jumbo 46 subversively funny 46 erudite 46 onanistic 46 perceptive 46 invigoratingly 46 sitcomish 46 good humored 46 VS Pritchett 46 guffaw inducing 45 Jean Paul Sartre 45 beautifully modulated 45 poeticism 45 ghoulishness 45 Philip Lopate 45 wry asides 45 acutely perceptive 45 pantomimic 45 magical realist 45 unrelievedly 45 solipsistic 45 quasi autobiographical 45 scabrously funny 45 Jean Giraudoux 45 self parodic 45 prissiness 45 authorial voice 45 cliche ridden 45 witlessness 45 biting satire 45 mawkishly 45 bitingly witty 45 Walter Pater 45 soberer 45 opera buffa 45 aperçu 45 humourlessness 45 dadaist 45 poetic prose 45 prolixity 45 stylistic tics 45 Expressionistic 45 Anouilh 45 bitingly satirical 45 deconstructions 45 beautifully wrought 45 sentimentalized 45 Brutally honest 45 pithier 45 artfully constructed 45 emotionally constipated 45 maundering 45 floridly 45 poesy 45 bombast 45 incisive critique 45 bleakly humorous 45 finely wrought 45 jocular 45 nasality 45 melancholia 45 bitingly funny 45 hallucinatory 45 grimness 45 Jamesian 45 self dramatizing 45 rhyming verse 45 laughless 45 ribald 45 Falstaffian 45 drippingly 45 donnish 45 wonderfully readable 45 quippy 45 dramaturgical 45 Breathy 45 nuanced portrait 45 unremittingly bleak 45 Le Carré 45 evocation 45 Kaurismäki 45 doom laden 45 endlessly quotable 45 Melancholic 45 Mozartian 45 offhandedness 45 savagely satirical 45 noir ish 45 exhortatory 45 sweetly nostalgic 45 authorial 45 bilious 45 Polish Joke 45 apercus 45 rhapsodies 45 hardboiled detective 45 deconstructive 45 unsubtle 45 mournful 45 barbed 45 sneering 45 laconic 45 commonplaces 45 grandiloquence 45 sneery 45 Monkish 45 polemic 45 maudlin sentimentality 45 Dadaist 45 self deprecation 45 transgressive 45 schticky 45 cliché ridden 45 Trigorin 45 schoolmasterly 45 Ford Madox Ford 45 leavened 45 self consciously 45 gut bustingly funny 45 snarky 45 Alphonse Daudet 45 hyperarticulate 44 purple prose 44 doleful 44 histrionic 44 liberally sprinkles 44 Dada esque 44 wry observation 44 flintiness 44 evocations 44 darkly comical 44 richly imaginative 44 keenly observant 44 thoroughly engrossing 44 Pirandellian 44 winsomeness 44 sly satire 44 sentimentality 44 visually ravishing 44 fitfully funny 44 richly satisfying 44 psychological acuity 44 waggish 44 trite 44 reproachful 44 documentarylike 44 humoristic 44 morbid 44 dramma giocoso 44 disarmingly honest 44 threnody 44 painfully unfunny 44 Hitchcockian suspense 44 wisecracker 44 witty prose 44 darkly ironic 44 lacerating 44 intermittently amusing 44 bitingly 44 glibness 44 pastiches 44 Benito Cereno 44 delusory 44 ponderousness 44 perfunctory 44 sociopolitical commentary 44 minatory 44 noir 44 Flann O'Brien 44 leavens 44 tragi comedy 44 reverential 44 panegyric 44 poetic sensibility 44 self mythologizing 44 slapstick 44 portentous 44 zestful 44 unblinking 44 refreshingly unsentimental 44 self reflexivity 44 pedantic 44 easeful 44 scabrously 44 affectingly 44 musicianly 44 poetical 44 self deprecatory humor 44 savage satire 44 Chambermaid 44 abrasively 44 metaphoric 44 thematic resonance 44 cloyingly sentimental 44 thuddingly 44 ruminations 44 Python esque 44 prose poem 44 unspontaneous 44 Brahmsian 44 terrifically funny 44 deadpan humor 44 poignant 44 lighthearted 44 autobiographical 44 David Pittu 44 irreverent wit 44 finely etched 44 directorial flourishes 44 bittersweetness 44 magisterially 44 bibulous 44 singspiel 44 lugubriousness 44 delicately nuanced 44 chromatic harmonies 44 philosophical ruminations 44 neo realist 44 puckishness 44 quotidian 44 limned 44 twistedly 44 absurdist playwright 44 Chaplinesque 44 pompous 44 eulogistic 44 sneering condescension 44 irascibility 44 metafictional 44 allegorical 44 outrageous puns 44 beguiling 44 SJ Perelman 44 book CostaLiving Laughing 44 melodrama 44 Ravel La Valse 44 Pythonesque 44 piquantly 44 dialogue crackles 44 Samuel Beckett 44 gimlet eyed 44 Unsentimental 44 fatuous 44 attitudinizing 44 declamatory 44 wry observations 44 wonderfully droll 44 illuminatingly 44 meta theatrical 44 unrelieved 43 hamminess 43 blokeish 43 oneiric 43 postmodern pastiche 43 LeCarre 43 puerile 43 densely textured 43 barbed wit 43 Overwrought 43 Anita Brookner 43 hardbitten 43 snideness 43 Schubertian 43 Randall Jarrell 43 cloyingly 43 genuflections 43 cornpone 43 miserabilist 43 insubstantiality 43 Almereyda 43 unflinching portrait 43 jeremiad 43 Comedian Zach Galifianakis 43 drollness 43 existential dread 43 winningly 43 macabre 43 literary allusions 43 genuine pathos 43 Hogarthian 43 poetic monologues 43 non sequiturs 43 pompousness 43 disquietingly 43 farceur 43 Oedipus Complex 43 verbal dexterity 43 primness 43 witticism 43 crudeness 43 incisive 43 piercingly 43 uncinematic 43 pensiveness 43 spoofery 43 paraphrases 43 platitudinous 43 obtuse 43 fabulist 43 jocose 43 juvenilia 43 Etienne Comar 43 minutely observed 43 allusive 43 apt summation 43 curmudgeonly 43 poetics 43 slyer 43 loopily 43 abjection 43 existentialism 43 magic realist 43 pointillistic 43 poetic imagery 43 cadenced 43 puckish humor 43 antic 43 convulsively funny 43 Strangelovian 43 corniness 43 Wickedly funny 43 cloying 43 mournfulness 43 Håfström 43 Godardian 43 Laurence Sterne 43 Georg Büchner 43 lyric poetry 43 divertimento 43 wicked wit 43 Frank Tashlin 43 Harmonielehre 43 elegantly phrased 43 bon mot 43 Seinfeldian 43 tautologies 43 peevish 43 tragicomedy 43 Sartrean 43 Lasdun 43 Kafka Metamorphosis 43 hagiography 43 squirm inducing 43 comically absurd 43 hilariously profane 43 tenebrous 43 sweetly sentimental 43 subversiveness 43 liltingly 43 demented 43 discomfiting 43 symbolist 43 overwrought prose 43 cuttingly 43 self referential humor 43 neo Romantic 43 dryly funny 43 self loathing 43 wit 43 caricatural 43 enthrallingly 43 avant gardism 43 Joycean 43 witticisms 43 subtly shaded 43 dissonant 43 Altmanesque 43 reminiscence 43 Lynchian 43 rivetingly 43 literal mindedness 43 droll wit 43 lyrical passages 43 Ronald Firbank 43 paean 43 minimalist composer 43 grandiloquent 43 Capra esque 43 versified 43 child's eye view 43 hyperrealism 43 Suffused 43 Stephen Dolginoff 43 Darkly funny 43 Niebuhrian 43 Phyllis Dietrichson 43 disquisition 43 auteurism 43 self referentiality 43 Trumanesque 43 hardboiled 43 Pelevin 43 portentousness 43 classic absurdist comedy 43 uninvolving 43 snide 43 jauntiness 43 characteristically 43 oddly endearing 43 archly 43 windiness 43 irreverence 43 poet Charles Bukowski 43 wickedly clever 43 staccato rhythms 43 brooding introspective 43 dilettantism 43 rapier wit 43 Pietro Aretino 43 endless repetition 43 profanely funny 43 clever rhymes 43 linguistic inventiveness 43 Intimate Strangers 43 Richard Brautigan 43 Astrov 43 marble mouthed 43 epigrams 43 neorealist 43 Moliére 43 dramaturgy 43 unrevealing 43 expressionist 43 aphorist 43 shticky 43 foppery 43 Tzara 43 blackly humorous 43 punkish 43 quasi operatic 43 unflinching 43 slyly subversive 43 sweetly melancholic 43 Mr. Cellophane 43 naturalism 43 self deprecating 43 overly melodramatic 43 drollery 43 Hemingway esque 43 ennui 43 lightheartedness 43 familial dysfunction 43 unmelodic 43 Wilfrid Sheed 43 Evelyn Waugh 43 sentimentalist 43 bombastic 43 wry wit 43 humor 43 dourness 42 brutal frankness 42 brio 42 deconstructionist 42 impeccably crafted 42 TS Eliot 42 wry self deprecating 42 autobiographically 42 raggedly 42 idiosyncratic 42 puerility 42 Brecht Weill 42 armchair philosopher 42 Edith Sitwell 42 Dostoevsky 42 earthily 42 Bourgeois Gentleman 42 moralistic 42 funereal 42 knowingness 42 cornball 42 Jean Eustache 42 hilariously 42 absurdist farce 42 absurdity 42 O'Rowe 42 playlet 42 wittily 42 Albee Who Afraid 42 fatalistic 42 plaintiveness 42 condescension 42 schmaltzy 42 overbearingly 42 self indulgent 42 pitiless 42 surrealist 42 Foucheux 42 fading Southern belle 42 coup de théâtre 42 moroseness 42 mildly risqué 42 ripely 42 unbearably poignant 42 deftly captures 42 Dead Souls 42 Psychopathia Sexualis 42 nouveau roman 42 inimitably 42 gallows humor 42 slyly funny 42 puckish 42 minute intermissionless 42 confessional memoir 42 heavy lidded 42 raffish 42 veers wildly 42 languor 42 dreaminess 42 quavery 42 highbrow 42 Feydeau 42 narcissistically 42 intricate wordplay 42 spareness 42 po faced 42 scatological jokes 42 showily 42 sly references 42 grows tiresome 42 hilarious 42 suavity 42 leaden 42 rageful 42 Shakesperean 42 suspenseful thriller 42 faux naïf 42 doggerel 42 sublimely 42 ineloquent 42 masterly 42 songful 42 Pulitzer Prizewinning 42 aperçus 42 Capraesque 42 slapstick farce 42 epistolary 42 unflinchingly honest 42 beatnik poet 42 elegies 42 Buñuel 42 slyness 42 SN Behrman 42 meta fictional 42 delicately wrought 42 unamusing 42 atonality 42 snappy dialogue 42 Emersonian 42 Braindead Megaphone 42 biting sarcasm 42 highbrow lowbrow 42 wistful melancholy 42 fuzz toned 42 epicene 42 dry wit 42 contempo 42 existential anguish 42 pretentious 42 withering sarcasm 42 clever wordplay 42 Hermann Broch 42 toneless 42 astringently 42 Martin Chuzzlewit 42 impishness 42 solipsist 42 knob gags 42 overly didactic 42 morality tales 42 savagely witty 42 Polanski Oliver Twist 42 Max Beerbohm 42 cantankerousness 42 knockabout comedy 42 Grand Guignol 42 treacly 42 philosophising 42 booboisie 42 disagreeably 42 sunniness 42 desaturated colors 42 prose stylist 42 woolgathering 42 Godfrey Reggio 42 sarcasms 42 formlessness 42 overly preachy 42 arrestingly 42 startlingly candid 42 dolorous 42 scrupulously researched 42 peevishness 42 La Chinoise 42 Krafft Ebing 42 dispassionate 42 Cinematically 42 quiddity 42 absurdist satire 42 rollicks 42 unabashedly romantic 42 trenchantly 42 pallid 42 agit prop 42 romantic fable 42 neo classicism 42 trenchant observations 42 biodrama 42 Schlöndorff 42 gorgeously sung 42 descriptive passages 42 shamelessly manipulative 42 nuance 42 unworldliness 42 wild gesticulations 42 Belvaux 42 raillery 42 Brownism 42 philosophical musings 42 wanly 42 anodyne 42 humerous 42 literalized 42 mesmerisingly 42 Deadpan 42 Mozartean 42 Huck Botko 42 swooningly 42 supercilious 42 quasi Marxist 42 poignancy 42 Cyril Connolly 42 Dael Orlandersmith 42 compendious 42 Couched 42 existentialists 42 Transfigured Night 42 engagingly 42 Lover Discourse 42 teacherly 42 wonkery 42 Dostoevski 42 succinct 42 emotionally manipulative 42 balladic 42 interrogative 42 circumlocution 42 lingeringly 42 hilariously funny 42 existential 42 humor pathos 42 Balanchine choreography 42 explications 42 verisimilitude 42 florid prose 42 sly winks 42 achingly poignant 42 pungently 42 quips 41 playwright Donald Margulies 41 lyrical imagery 41 masterwork 41 Russian Debutante Handbook 41 phantasmagoric 41 guitar soloing 41 exquisitely nuanced 41 theatricality 41 aching tenderness 41 Dr. Pangloss 41 excoriation 41 Theodore Roethke 41 self abasing 41 Byronic 41 dissonant harmonies 41 precise diction 41 unflinching depiction 41 hypnotic repetition 41 scatological 41 darkly atmospheric 41 agitprop 41 substanceless 41 actorly 41 subtlety 41 Hazel Motes 41 narrative coherence 41 utterly unsentimental 41 coquettishness 41 Kurtág 41 mountebank 41 nonfictional 41 Ruders 41 melodramatically 41 stylisation 41 Durang 41 endearingly quirky 41 slapdash 41 overbaked 41 film noir