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(Click for frequent words.) 65 wry 64 wistful 61 sardonic 59 melancholy 58 droll 57 mordant 57 blithe 56 lugubrious 55 doleful 55 Beckettian 55 poignant 54 ruefulness 54 morose 53 elegiac 53 deadpan 53 mournful 52 self deprecatory 52 wry witty 52 Chekhovian 52 melancholic 52 wryness 52 waspish 51 impassivity 51 Wildean 51 jauntiness 51 mournfully 51 wistfulness 50 mordant wit 50 plaintive 50 self lacerating 50 sly 50 insouciant 50 glib 50 wry humor 50 unsentimental 50 lachrymose 50 omniscient narrator 50 reproachful 49 laconic 49 sorrowful 49 trenchant 49 superciliousness 49 mordant humor 49 jaunty 49 poetic 49 affectless 49 disarmingly honest 49 discomfiting 49 bathetic 49 unabashedly sentimental 49 mirthful 49 shamefaced 49 blokeish 49 incredulousness 49 mordantly 49 dolorous 49 sarcastic 49 sardonic humor 48 affectingly 48 bemused 48 trembly 48 bathos 48 self pitying 48 plangent 48 elegiac tone 48 sidelong 48 self deprecation 48 mawkishly 48 acerbity 48 wince inducing 48 Pinteresque 48 pithy 48 genial 48 sheepish 48 cocked eyebrow 48 dour 48 poignancy 48 maudlin 48 fatalistic 48 dolefully 48 witty asides 48 schoolmasterly 48 winsomeness 48 splenetic 47 mournfulness 47 pathos 47 lugubriousness 47 hangdog 47 ponderousness 47 self pity 47 Dessaix 47 donnish 47 bittersweetness 47 archly 47 descriptive prose 47 clunky exposition 47 sprightly 47 hardbitten 47 ruminative 47 introspective 47 self effacingly 47 snippiness 47 phlegmatic 47 guileless 47 quavery 47 Wildean wit 47 flippant 47 abashed 47 jocular 47 leaden 47 portentous 46 sullen 46 curiously detached 46 breeziness 46 pityingly 46 wearily 46 worldly wise 46 self deprecating 46 Shavian 46 bleakly 46 sunnily 46 jokey 46 blackly funny 46 refreshingly honest 46 touchingly 46 sheepishness 46 kitchen sink realism 46 mawkish 46 orotund 46 waspishly 46 amiable 46 sentimentality 46 tremulous 46 sombre 46 artless 46 quizzical 46 acerbic 46 offhandedness 46 sighs 46 po faced 46 cloyingly sentimental 46 sneery 46 terseness 46 supercilious 46 curtness 46 cleareyed 46 unsentimentally 46 smug 46 mawkish sentimentality 46 bleakly funny 46 overfamiliar 46 disarmingly 46 perceptive 46 forlorn 46 pained 46 dryly humorous 46 fatalism 46 wife Liu Yingchun 46 grumbly 46 witty 46 disbelievingly 46 scornful 46 nervily 45 wryly humorous 45 tragicomic 45 Rueful 45 pursed lip 45 peevishness 45 refreshing candor 45 sententious 45 winces 45 actressy 45 chirpiness 45 Dostoevskian 45 cherishable 45 tragi comic 45 picaresque 45 rebarbative 45 sardonic wit 45 overdetermined 45 wryly amusing 45 sly wit 45 Chaplinesque 45 irascibility 45 harrumphs 45 languorous 45 beguiling 45 tetchiness 45 woodenness 45 devilish wit 45 pensive 45 larky 45 lilting 45 clichéd 45 stoical 45 unsubtle 45 dourness 45 diffident 45 insouciance 45 baleful 45 heartfelt 45 mawkishness 45 chuckles 45 maundering 45 smirky 45 protag 45 threnody 45 haughty 45 wanly 45 good humored 45 windiness 45 unworldliness 45 poesy 45 sarky 45 wistfully 45 foreboding 45 engagingly 45 rhapsodic 45 scatty 45 facetiousness 45 cheery 45 quavery voice 44 incantatory 44 ruefully 44 revelatory 44 deadpan expression 44 saturnine 44 reverential 44 self effacing 44 funereal 44 grinningly 44 moony 44 wickedly witty 44 gleeful 44 drolly 44 winsome 44 brooding 44 slyer 44 faux naif 44 admonitory 44 dithery 44 liltingly 44 cynical 44 sly humor 44 curmudgeonly 44 pensiveness 44 whimsicality 44 humorous asides 44 arrestingly 44 darkly poetic 44 Breathy 44 wonderfully understated 44 wry asides 44 jocularity 44 pompousness 44 Hemingway esque 44 curt 44 jokiness 44 Wryly 44 Conradian 44 wry smile 44 emotionally constipated 44 toe curlingly embarrassing 44 tinging 44 philosophical musing 44 searingly honest 44 achingly poignant 44 easeful 44 heart rendingly 44 flinty 44 hangdog demeanor 44 stolid 44 sinister undertone 44 wistful longing 44 amiably 44 recriminatory 44 abject despair 44 ponderous 44 hangdog expression 44 sunniness 44 mirthless 44 melodramatic 44 winsomely 44 touchingly vulnerable 44 magisterially 44 girlishness 44 wry observation 44 minatory 44 moany 44 somber 44 dopily 44 gritted teeth 44 uninflected 44 coruscating 44 teacherly 44 snappish 44 stoic 44 emotional catharsis 44 disdainful 44 wolfish grin 44 disconsolate 44 epigrammatic 44 imperturbability 44 gallows humor 43 suavely 43 unbearably poignant 43 puckish 43 gnomic 43 owlish glasses 43 queasily 43 rapier sharp 43 epiphanic 43 perfunctory 43 Dogberry 43 indulgently 43 guilelessness 43 tautly constructed 43 phlegmatically 43 despairing 43 dyspeptic 43 fulsome 43 erudite playful 43 delphic 43 poetic prose 43 desolating 43 plummy 43 darkly hilarious 43 rumination 43 unheroic 43 dialogue crackles 43 ironic detachment 43 veers dangerously close 43 avuncular 43 Self referential 43 weariness 43 hamminess 43 Herzogian 43 Capt. Harold Dobey 43 wisecracker 43 Grand Manner 43 abjection 43 blackly 43 youthful ardor 43 uptightness 43 unsparing 43 scabrous 43 callow 43 deftly captures 43 Jodie McNee 43 bewilderment 43 dirge 43 praiseful 43 Gallic shrugs 43 self mythologising 43 lingeringly 43 fatalist 43 murmured 43 wrinkled brow 43 joviality 43 elegaic 43 ungainliness 43 desultory 43 disarming honesty 43 reminiscence 43 Feydeau 43 eloquent 43 languor 43 Director Julian Jarrold 43 grumpiness 43 rheumy eyed 43 Je ne regrette rien 43 furrowed brow 43 inelegance 43 beautifully modulated 43 quivery 43 sweetly 43 solipsist 43 wryly 43 stony hearted 43 cocky demeanor 43 misty eyed 43 achingly funny 43 blackly comic 43 veddy British 43 disobliging 43 muzzy 43 Gustav von Aschenbach 43 careworn 43 deadpan comic 43 dispiriting 43 sardonically funny 43 snide 43 directness 43 triteness 43 winningly 43 inscrutably 43 tragi comedy 43 refreshingly unsentimental 43 moroseness 43 quivering lip 43 slyly witty 43 monotonal 43 refreshingly candid 42 schoolmarmish 42 dryly funny 42 throaty laugh 42 witty urbane 42 wholly believable 42 cheerless 42 laceratingly 42 mutters 42 unaffecting 42 chirrups 42 self abasing 42 archness 42 brusque 42 Prince Myshkin 42 penetratingly 42 terse 42 feelingly 42 dewy eyed 42 grimness 42 wrenchingly 42 sullenness 42 mordantly funny 42 wonderfully nuanced 42 wincingly 42 taciturn 42 querulous 42 parodic 42 digressive 42 unpoetic 42 glum 42 drollness 42 poignantly 42 overly preachy 42 steely 42 smirking 42 franker 42 impishness 42 Dylanesque 42 stentorian 42 subtextual 42 incredulous 42 squirmingly 42 self dramatizing 42 cantankerousness 42 zestful 42 disarming directness 42 sombreness 42 reverent 42 mirthless smile 42 plaintiveness 42 trite 42 lunkheaded 42 condescending 42 didacticism 42 poignance 42 familial discord 42 ditziness 42 Hagar Shipley 42 languid 42 self consciously 42 off puttingly 42 lyrical passages 42 cliched 42 fuddled 42 melodramatically 42 prolix 42 garrulousness 42 Lasdun 42 tearstained 42 wince 42 agreeably 42 steely stare 42 Achingly 42 marble mouthed 42 elegies 42 grudging 42 wan smile 42 jocose 42 Swiftian 42 comical 42 sternness 42 stagy 42 dryly witty 42 chucklesome 42 glummer 42 guilelessly 42 sneering 42 raffish 42 Positively 4th Street 42 stagey 42 witty quip 42 beautifully nuanced 42 schoolboyish 42 nervy 42 daftness 42 humorous 42 erudite 42 piquantly 42 unspontaneous 42 inarticulacy 42 unabashedly romantic 42 twinkly eyed 42 Kleinzahler 42 Felliniesque 42 brusk 42 unmannered 42 mumbles 42 nonchalance 42 poeticism 42 imploringly 42 aching tenderness 42 unrevealing 42 literary allusions 42 chastened 42 sheepish grins 42 resignedly 42 longueur 42 Weltschmerz 42 endearing 42 pity 42 broodingly 42 clipped cadence 42 elegant prose 42 chunter 42 blankness 42 coup de foudre 42 dryly 42 unaffectedly 42 bemusing 42 blackly humorous 42 hagiographical 42 pitying 42 suave debonair 42 humorlessness 42 doubleness 42 good naturedness 42 anguished cry 42 mumbly 42 defiant 42 hunched shoulders 42 chirpier 42 maudlin sentimentality 41 Sophoclean 41 quavers 41 contemporary resonances 41 elliptically 41 dull monotone 41 stilted 41 laughs uproariously 41 forgivingly 41 existential dread 41 ennui 41 charmingly self deprecating 41 cynicism 41 hackneyed 41 yearningly 41 Rory O'Shea 41 sneers 41 sardonic grin 41 Widow Story 41 bittersweet 41 despairingly 41 undemonstrative 41 bitingly funny 41 startlingly candid 41 barely intelligible 41 existentialist 41 psychologically astute 41 Mancunian accent 41 salutory 41 scathingly funny 41 Parolles 41 laughs 41 ingenuousness 41 side splittingly 41 ghostliness 41 uproarious 41 grimly 41 jaded 41 humor pathos 41 apt summation 41 faintly amused 41 roundelay 41 glibness 41 voice quavers 41 eloquently expresses 41 moonstruck 41 Cinematically 41 THE SCRAPBOOK 41 screwball farce 41 sulkiness 41 jejune 41 plaintive tenor 41 serio comic 41 preachiness 41 amour propre 41 cloying 41 sadder 41 smugness 41 irresistibly charming 41 knockabout humor 41 recriminating 41 human frailty 41 Non je ne 41 cheery disposition 41 boyish exuberance 41 Nicole Underhay 41 dreamily 41 beatific 41 pomposity 41 stolidity 41 turgid 41 daffy 41 wonderfully readable 41 amusingly 41 cussedness 41 roué 41 velvety baritone 41 Brangäne 41 gruffness 41 lighthearted 41 Mountstuart 41 callowness 41 disarming candor 41 lugubriously 41 screamingly funny 41 miserablism 41 bromidic 41 sarcasms 41 bibulous 41 haunting 41 finely etched 41 jug eared 41 readerly 41 disarmingly candid 41 heavy lidded 41 loserdom 41 searchingly 41 wistful melancholy 41 side splittingly funny 41 Twilight Zone ish 41 blandly 41 overacted 41 hilariously funny 41 musicianly 41 doomy 41 discordant notes 41 impish 41 immensely likeable 41 profundity 41 ineffable sadness 41 boyishness 41 ineloquent 41 MacCaig 41 Kubrickian 41 Self deprecating 41 absurdism 41 exultant 41 Byronic 41 reedy voiced 41 AE Houseman 41 unadorned prose 41 authorial 41 piteous 41 dry wit 41 nuanced 41 farcical 41 aperçu 41 sly wink 41 Simon Hoggart 41 limns 41 sappier 41 headshakes 41 Kepesh 41 blithe spirit 41 unashamedly sentimental 41 witty acerbic 41 unstarry 41 Unsentimental 41 wonderfully deadpan 41 yawningly 41 chuckling 41 Claggart 41 urbane wit 41 De Bellaigue 41 light hearted 41 Henry Chinaski 41 lumpish 41 artlessness 41 unbridled fury 41 wonderfully droll 41 embarrassedly 41 lilts 41 refreshingly forthright 41 eyes crinkling 41 soppy 41 frankest 41 chirpy 41 snappy patter 41 unbearable poignancy 41 genteel 41 self recrimination 41 cheeky 41 Dostoyevskian 41 slightest twinge 41 outsize ego 41 coda 41 chin stroking 41 wry understated 41 wittiness Squire 41 florid 41 inconsequentiality 41 preternaturally calm 41 elegy 41 gushy 41 Melancholic 41 narrator 41 Lynn Bashforth 41 charming cad 41 sentimental 41 caustically funny 41 cuttingly 41 wistful yearning 41 beautifully wrought 41 quavering 41 cheerful 41 stoicism 41 forlornness 41 pompous 41 aphorist 41 nonchalant 41 Golaud 41 Zinnemann 41 proto feminist 41 Bergmanesque 40 Presenter Ricky Gervais 40 aching loneliness 40 miserabilism 40 self abasement 40 almost apologetically 40 Jacobean revenge 40 searingly 40 charm personified 40 longing glances 40 utterly charming 40 perkily 40 badinage 40 flintiness 40 sentimentalized 40 knowingness 40 despondently 40 quiddity 40 unexcitable 40 philosophising 40 Workingman Blues # 40 affectionate portrait 40 Plainspoken 40 placatory 40 craggier 40 likably 40 politer 40 brutally honest 40 Hemingwayesque 40 unerring ear 40 smug complacency 40 fey 40 longueurs 40 plot contrivance 40 soul baring 40 whipcrack 40 unrelentingly bleak 40 misanthropic 40 cheeriness 40 galumphing 40 Faulknerian 40 condescension 40 fogeyish 40 ascerbic 40 Jamesian 40 obtuse 40 aphoristic 40 flippancy 40 grumpy 40 boastfulness 40 salesman Willy Loman 40 overly melodramatic 40 downcast 40 amusedly 40 pupil dilating 40 unintentionally humorous 40 Goldengrove 40 masterly understatement 40 quippy 40 stingingly 40 peevish 40 Portentous 40 bitingly sarcastic 40 blitheness 40 platitudinous 40 epigrams 40 groan inducing 40 garrulous 40 weepy eyed 40 hauntingly 40 keenly observant 40 literal mindedness 40 Wineapple 40 insipidness 40 canny 40 wiseass 40 disbelieving 40 Pythonesque 40 laconic drawl 40 piercingly 40 urbane 40 utter hopelessness 40 finely nuanced 40 heart breakingly 40 Hauntingly beautiful 40 shticky 40 positively glows 40 cri de coeur 40 clever quips 40 wiseacre 40 overwrought 40 sentimentalities 40 sheer ordinariness 40 gratingly 40 fading Southern belle 40 suitably regal 40 jockish 40 Andrew Billen 40 picaresque tale 40 Resnais 40 grimace 40 Texan twang 40 darkly comedic 40 raggedly 40 chortles 40 unflinching honesty 40 hollowly 40 unbearably sad 40 Freddy Eynsford Hill 40 hippie ish 40 affectionate 40 tristesse 40 nodding 40 drawls 40 diffidence 40 ebullient 40 numbing repetition 40 disarmingly funny 40 ominous overtones 40 billet doux 40 unsettling 40 scowls 40 dulcet 40 painfulness 40 remarkably chipper 40 folkiness 40 droll deadpan 40 everyguy 40 Mahlerian 40 mischievous twinkle 40 mischievousness 40 lilting accent 40 Sorry Grateful 40 staginess 40 gruffly 40 doom laden 40 witheringly 40 Workingman Blues 40 waggish 40 disarming frankness 40 cliché ridden 40 giddy schoolgirl 40 ribald humor 40 sparky 40 slyly 40 gruff 40 sweetly sentimental 40 angst ridden 40 exhortatory 40 delicately wrought 40 disconcertingly 40 inexpressive 40 lordly 40 jeu d' esprit 40 pungent 40 subtle 40 impertinent 40 bravura 40 sardonically 40 jollity 40 belabors 40 reverie 40 chuntering 40 puppyish 40 cheery demeanor 40 undramatic 40 Nabokovian 40 acutely observant 40 lyrical prose 40 soporific 40 goosebump inducing 40 lantern jaw 40 pursed lipped 40 unhappily 40 disarmingly frank 40 wideboy 40 self parodic 40 facile 40 lilt 40 shmaltz 40 soft shoed 40 disagreeably 40 rhyming verse 40 tolerantly 40 sadder wiser 40 spikiness 40 geniality 40 nod sagely 40 spritely 40 Zenlike 40 darkly comic 40 guiltily 40 nameless narrator 40 grumpier 40 sarcasm 40 Shakespearean proportions 40 screwball romance 40 ominous foreshadowing 40 inarticulateness 40 Rafe Spall 40 Madame Armfeldt 40 insouciant charm 40 instantly likeable 40 pantomimic 40 unrequited love 40 sweetly nostalgic 40 heartful 40 drawled 40 bemusement 40 withering stare 40 Mischievously 40 glam stomp 40 beatific smile 40 inwardness 40 Germanic accent 40 misanthropy 40 clichd 40 joylessness 40 self loathing 40 bemused detachment 40 deadpan wit 40 graceful prose 39 characteristic candor 39 inconstancy 39 introspections 39 ably conveys 39 treacly 39 fusspot 39 mutedly 39 bleakly comic 39 Dr Pangloss 39 lament 39 prig 39 confessional memoir 39 melodramatic flourishes 39 witlessness 39 unhopeful 39 finely shaded 39 stony 39 eyebrows arching 39 unfeigned 39 sourly 39 quotable quote 39 cockeyed optimism 39 excruciatingly embarrassing 39 seering 39 goodnatured 39 ironic 39 loping 39 bracingly honest 39 lush romanticism 39 Arthur Przybyszewski 39 mush mouthed 39 conspiratorial wink 39 bittersweetly 39 characteristically 39 self indulgently 39 whatsisname 39 grim 39 absurdist humor 39 likeable chap 39 disarming smile