eloquent, witty, urbane, perspicacious, perceptive, amiable, genial, sagacious, affable, loquacious, pithy, pompous, garrulous, insightful, verbose, astute, droll, thoughtful, opinionated, pedantic, acerbic, professorial, waspish, prolix, articulate, avuncular, glib, studious, owlish, trenchant, sententious, orotund, voluble, irenic, compendious, recondite, aphoristic, scholarly, cerebral, donnish, praiseful, wry, clubbable, supercilious, dispassionate, irascible, pretentious, bon vivant, bons mots, rebarbative, eminent, lucid, shavian, gnomic, enlightening, william hazlitt, alexander woollcott, florid, curmudgeonly, epigrammatic, rabelaisian, unexcitable, polymathic, jocular, mannerly, highbrow, untutored, likeable, hemingwayesque, inquisitive, quotable, personable, polemical, pious, teacherly, illuminative, incisive, bookish, intellectual, poetical, sardonic, intelligent, debonair, opinioned, amusing, schoolmasterly, harold nicolson, ineloquent, gregarious, obtuse, acidulous, suave, max beerbohm, quippy, laconic, disputatious, irreverent, unpretentious, lionel trilling, unquotable, mannered, bibulous, learned, distinguished, influential, respected, uninspired, wellinformed, antiquarian, profane, regarded, sanskrit, anonymous, biblical

eruditely, highbrow, learnedly

learned, scholarly