unaffecting, bathetic, overdetermined, melodramatic, grand guignol, mirthless, archness, toneless, staginess, shavian, banal, stagey, unpoetic, sophoclean, pastiche, larky, metafiction, nabokovian, lumpish, affectless, mawkish, arioso, formulaic, clownishness, woodenness, hackneyed, lugubrious, uninflected, overbearingly, winkingly, overlong, digressive, slyer, rollickingly, trite, chucklesome, poeticism, maudlin, attitudinizing, mozartian, absurdism, cumbersomely, treacly, bromidic, cloyingly, tuneful, ripely, ponderous, pantomimic, unheroic, unmelodic, onanistic, dramaturgical, uncontrived, woolgathering, auteurism, ludic, filmic, leaden, inoffensiveness, unamusing, muzzy, tiresomely, pythonesque, bathos, sneery, rhythmless, lunkheaded, hackwork, unentertaining, singspiel, didacticism, pulpier, rote, opera buffa, invigoratingly, indistinctive, gratingly, eggheaded, flibbertigibbet, wryness, swiftian, shmaltz, indefinably, beguiling, overwrought, facetiousness, forgivably, aphoristic, lyrical, drifty, sententious, somnambulistic, rebarbative, anodyne, fleetly, archaisms, slangy, exhortatory, twee, teacherly, pretentious

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stocka, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

familiar, forward