schoolmasterly, rebarbative, homiletic, schoolmarmish, nabokovian, shavian, puppyish, exhortatory, jocose, schoolboyish, lumpish, mrs. malaprop, aphoristic, larky, quippy, overfamiliar, bathetic, sophoclean, sarky, cadenced, sneery, humoristic, sententious, unmannered, seraphic, falstaffian, unpoetic, jocular, slyer, wordsworthian, queenly, acidulous, unshowy, prolix, mozartean, hemingwayesque, waspish, grand guignol, clownlike, housewifely, donnish, vivifying, droll, hieratic, moonfaced, good naturedness, mirthful, epigrammatic, orotund, slangy, mot juste, witty, unacademic, shakespearean sonnet, johnsonian, chaucerian, bubbliness, gnomic, opera buffa, smirky, inexpressive, mozartian, jamesian, sesquipedalian, sermonic, unaffecting, eulogistic, bons mots, jesuitical, bromidic, wry, holmesian, ineloquent, handelian, max beerbohm, unembellished, unanimated, affectless, minatory, swiftian, pompous, scatty, priggish, ludic, songful, unquotable, pantomimic, bon mot, delphic, saturnine, pointillistic, epistolary, charming, maidenly, sarcastic, glib, sphinxlike, beethovenian, goatish, womanish, jauntier, perspicuous, accusatory, lawyerly, motherly, nonjudgmental, admonitory, apologetic, assertive, avuncular, condescending, diffident, duplicitous, oracular, sexualized, writerly, authorial, brusque, circumspect