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wit 42 couching 42 wonkish 42 studiedly 42 monotone 42 self deprecating 42 assholery 42 pithier 42 semantics 42 overly deferential 42 clever quips 42 wryness 42 characteristically 42 stemwinder 42 platitudes 42 flowery 42 monosyllables 42 Judge Gertner 42 backhanded compliments 42 orotund 42 lucid prose 42 flip floppery 42 doublespeak 42 delphic 42 aw shucks 42 bureaucratese 42 declarative 42 nononsense 42 unbending 42 irascibility 42 mot juste 42 journalese 42 pugnacious 42 formidable intellect 42 pettifogging 42 cleverly worded 42 dryly humorous 42 puffery 42 incoherencies 42 verbiage 42 indirectness 42 enunciation 42 blunt 42 witty retort 42 Belichickian 42 prose 42 grim visage 42 pragmatic 42 prissiness 42 syllogistic 42 disengenuous 42 abstruse 42 speak extemporaneously 42 undogmatic 42 refreshingly blunt 42 inelegant 42 bullheadedness 42 sneering condescension 42 flowery prose 42 quippy 42 ascerbic 42 droll 42 unrevealing 41 awkwardly phrased 41 curt 41 harsh critiques 41 verbal dexterity 41 mono syllabic 41 pedantically 41 precise diction 41 Pithy 41 barbed wit 41 sesquipedalian 41 brusqueness 41 Seinfeld ian 41 bloviation 41 finely nuanced 41 pragmatism 41 contemptuous 41 self depricating 41 persiflage 41 diplomatic niceties 41 Wermiel 41 rote 41 smarmily 41 briskness 41 caviling 41 dilatory 41 weaselly 41 monosyllabic responses 41 sneery 41 carefully crafted 41 clenched jaw 41 bare knuckled 41 rebarbative 41 carefully worded 41 perfunctory 41 noninterventionist 41 lacerating wit 41 couched 41 unguardedly 41 Lincolnesque 41 cornball humor 41 bafflegab 41 subjunctive tense 41 urbane sophistication 41 insightfulness 41 legalistic arguments 41 Libby commutation 41 officiousness 41 verbs nouns 41 cavalier 41 ipse dixit 41 erudite 41 caustic wit 41 pointillistic 41 deadpan sarcasm 41 finely honed 41 pellucid 41 sardonic humor 41 witty retorts 41 brusque manner 41 grandiloquent 41 pugnaciously 41 mangled syntax 41 Obamian 41 impeccable manners 41 hopelessly muddled 41 reportorial 41 scrupulously 41 slangy 41 judicial overreaching 41 disarmingly candid 41 incuriosity 41 rhetorician 41 commonsensical 41 glibness 41 staidly 41 beguilingly simple 41 boiled boilerplate 41 evasions 41 laconic wit 41 verbosely 41 unemotional 41 unhesitating 41 Omit needless words 41 monotonal 41 humourlessness 41 indistinctive 41 rigid ideologue 41 acerbity 41 taciturnity 41 picayune 41 factuality 40 adroit 40 verb tenses 40 rakish charm 40 unpoetic 40 gobbledy gook 40 contrarianism 40 temporized 40 awe shucks 40 laudably 40 glib tongue 40 waspish 40 utter shamelessness 40 inquisitional 40 pseudo philosophical 40 speechifying 40 patently dishonest 40 everybody Pendergrast 40 overly wordy 40 wise Latina remark 40 loquaciousness 40 windiness 40 evasive 40 brass knuckle politics 40 cogency 40 erudition 40 elicited chuckles 40 tendentious 40 unflinching candor 40 placid demeanor 40 sarcastic wit 40 Nixonian 40 polite 40 ah shucks 40 maudlin sentimentality 40 extemporaneous 40 deflective 40 logorrhea 40 Rhetorically 40 forthright 40 steely stare 40 arrogant aloof 40 donnish 40 irreverent wit 40 sensical 40 rejoinders 40 self effacing demeanor 40 oratorical skill 40 darkly witty 40 fastidious 40 descriptive prose 40 rote repetition 40 sophistries 40 thickheaded 40 insouciant 40 arcane 40 coldly analytical 40 wry humor 40 bumper sticker slogans 40 wonkiness 40 he-said/she-said 40 speaking extemporaneously 40 Jamesian 40 politeness 40 ripostes 40 disquisition 40 sarcastic tone 40 evasiveness 40 staccato sentences 40 mirthless smile 40 overdetermined 40 witty prose 40 evocative prose 40 prevaricator 40 tut tuts 40 verbal contortions 40 topical gags 40 bureaucrat ese 40 curt replies 40 fastidiousness 40 antiseptically 40 sphinxlike 40 verbal tic 40 spoke extemporaneously 40 Judge Tatel 40 Coldly 40 clownishness 40 wit 40 ma'ams 40 snideness 40 scornful 40 pig headedness 40 tin eared 40 courtliness 40 brows furrow 40 procedural niceties 40 plaintive tenor 39 chin stroking 39 raillery 39 urbane wit 39 mush mouthed 39 policy wonk 39 bons mots 39 felicitously 39 hamhanded 39 incoherency 39 syntax grammar 39 folksiness 39 humorlessness 39 declamatory 39 quipster 39 impenetrably 39 Machiavellian 39 glib talker 39 moral exhibitionism 39 rhetorical hyperbole 39 defter 39 self effacing 39 summation 39 JUSTICE SCALIA 39 argumentum ad hominem 39 bland generalities 39 uninformative 39 pin striped 39 expository 39 vituperative 39 minutely choreographed 39 owlish 39 rephrasing 39 platitude 39 concision 39 affability 39 disingenuity 39 schticky 39 meretricious 39 winks nods 39 brutal honesty 39 dictionary definitions 39 stylistic tics 39 literary allusions 39 eminently quotable 39 tendentiousness 39 deliberate obfuscation 39 tu quoque 39 Bushian 39 gratuitous insults 39 abject cowardice 39 asperity 39 prefacing 39 stenographic 39 sophistic 39 famously opaque 39 soldierly 39 reedy voice 39 grammar syntax 39 wittedness 39 misplaced modifiers 39 semantical 39 sanctimonious 39 high falutin 39 deadpan monotone 39 judiciousness 39 sophistical 39 unclever 39 bluntness 39 vague 39 nonverbal clues 39 legalistically 39 contentless 39 toe curlingly embarrassing 39 subjunctive 39 extemporaneously 39 artfully constructed 39 droll deadpan 39 artful 39 accusatory 39 sly 39 rapier wit 39 prosecutorial zeal 39 nonliteral 39 unflappably 39 flinty 39 Perfunctory 39 casuistry 39 steely 39 Chandleresque 39 Straightforward 39 condemnatory 39 frankest 39 nominating Harriet Miers 39 simple declarative 39 mendacity 39 Beltway pundits 39 chattiness 39 ramrod posture 39 artlessness 39 sardonic 39 technocratic 39 humorless 39 terser 39 good naturedness 39 expostulation 39 stingingly 39 Yes sirs 39 logical fallacies 39 earnestness 39 stentorian 39 sardonic grin 39 puzzlements 39 self abasing 39 pompous 39 knuckle rapping 39 nuance 39 lip pursing 39 wry 39 self deprecatory humor 39 undiplomatic 39 pursed lips 39 bon mots 39 repartees 39 Holmesian 39 writerly 39 McCarthyesque 39 volubility 39 suavity 39 self deprecating humor 39 avowals 39 Wieseltier 39 explicating 39 Shavian 39 long windedness 39 grand inquisitor 39 faux naif 39 shameless mugging 39 buttoned 39 yes ma'ams 39 unadorned prose 39 split infinitives 39 harrumphing 39 textualism 39 Orwellian doublespeak 39 carefully modulated 39 formalistic 39 Giuiliani 39 cocked eyebrow 39 terminological 39 ham handedly 39 asker 39 hardnosed 39 dissembler 39 solecisms 39 constitutionally incapable 39 irreproachably 39 purposive interpretation 39 arcane formulas 39 nonadversarial 39 oracular 39 unsensational 39 narrowly circumscribed 39 acronyms jargon 38 jocose 38 patrician 38 jocular 38 disarmingly 38 repetitiously 38 supercilious 38 self aggrandizing 38 self referential humor 38 cerebral 38 flippant 38 eggheaded 38 tweedy 38 nit picking 38 nods winks 38 recondite 38 bluster 38 scrupulous honesty 38 chiasmus 38 slight Southern drawl 38 scrupulous 38 cornpone 38 prosecutorial overreach 38 candor 38 inexpressive 38 witty barbs 38 mild rebukes 38 attorney Erwin Shustak 38 patter 38 snappy comebacks 38 self effacing humor 38 startlingly frank 38 curtseys 38 seasoned debater 38 smarminess 38 pious platitudes 38 unreasoned 38 tactfulness 38 prosaic 38 priests bullying schoolmasters 38 caginess 38 folksy Midwestern 38 unnuanced 38 ramrod stiff 38 weasel words 38 facetiousness 38 impenetrability 38 fuddle 38 blatantly dishonest 38 refreshing candor 38 Seinfeldian 38 imperturbable 38 elegant prose 38 niceties 38 vitriolic diatribes 38 witty 38 deprecating 38 j'accuse 38 wry wit 38 enunciating 38 starched shirt 38 blokeish 38 trenchant observations 38 gentlemanliness 38 textualist 38 sarcasm 38 Germanic accent 38 archness 38 inadmissible hearsay speculation 38 nothingburger 38 memorizing vocabulary 38 malaprops 38 bare knuckles 38 cultured despisers 38 rearguing 38 Bostonian accent 38 breeziness 38 actorly 38 fatuous 38 doctrinaire 38 originalist 38 lofty rhetoric 38 Alito 38 self deprecating charm 38 elided 38 hackish 38 impishness 38 cogent explanation 38 rhetoricians 38 pugnaciousness 38 studious avoidance 38 disarming frankness 38 seeming contradictions 38 nonconfrontational 38 dissimulation 38 stickler 38 intellectual firepower 38 TOOBIN 38 thick tongued 38 hemming hawing 38 smirky 38 impassivity 38 adroitness 38 oratorical 38 churlishness 38 Mukasey 38 Burkean 38 prickly defensiveness 38 vagueness 38 Orwellian newspeak 38 doubletalk 38 slavishness 38 Vendler 38 cogitations 38 elisions 38 question asker 38 Socratic method 38 singularly lacking 38 principled 38 subjunctive mood 38 straightahead 38 bromidic 38 hug thug 38 analytical rigor 38 Hemingway esque 38 hardheaded 38 grammatical 38 Cilizza 38 Plainspoken 38 obliqueness 38 passive agressive 38 courtroom colloquy 38 laconic 38 verbally dexterous 38 trippingly 38 multisyllabic 38 similes metaphors 38 evenhandedness 38 literal minded 38 self effacement 38 hyperbolic rhetoric 38 skilled debater 38 polysyllabic words 38 deductive reasoning 38 winded explanations 38 clipped cadence 38 demurring 38 coolly detached 38 punchy 38 wordier 38 brilliant orator 38 retentive memory 38 epigrammatic 38 ambiguousness 38 ploddingly 38 folksy sayings 38 empty platitudes 38 courtly 38 syllogisms 38 prefatory 38 characterological 38 comported 38 phrasing 38 Trumanesque 38 spine stiffening 38 elicit chuckle 38 inartfully 38 panegyric 38 circumspect 38 unladylike 38 obsequious 38 monosyllable 38 moralist 38 serial comma 38 le mot juste 38 elaborative 38 sangfroid 38 aperçu 38 personable demeanor 38 undramatic 38 sarcasms 38 barnyard epithet 38 tieless 38 deductive logic 38 Dr. Larabee Laurence 38 nonideological 38 Southern gentility 38 hyperboles 38 bluntest 38 Mozartian 38 extemporizing 38 techno jargon 37 gerunds 37 pompousness 37 rephrases 37 stenography 37 formidably intelligent 37 anodyne 37 snappy repartee 37 adverbial 37 soft spokenness 37 jokiness 37 artspeak 37 forceful 37 hewed closely 37 readily comprehensible 37 softhearted 37 self deprecating jokes 37 condescending 37 biting wit 37 unfailing politeness 37 courtly manner 37 Grammatical errors 37 Solomonic wisdom 37 unmodulated 37 Branzburg 37 brusk 37 ingenuous 37 alliterative phrase 37 genteel 37 moral obtuseness 37 handwaving 37 cavalierly dismissed 37 trenchant 37 muted color palette 37 inductive reasoning 37 combative 37 anal retentive 37 po faced 37 wordplay 37 coachspeak 37 regurgitations 37 euphemisms 37 Arkes 37 elide 37 mendacious 37 Greenspeak 37 snippiness 37 slyness 37 litigator 37 Ginsburg Breyer 37 wrinkled brow 37 naïve idealism 37 incomprehensibility 37 collegial 37 stem winders 37 rhetorical sleight 37 mumbly 37 self deprecation 37 dismissive 37 intellectual rigor 37 putdown 37 descriptives 37 droll humor 37 stammering 37 persuasiveness 37 unexpressive 37 wonkishness 37 lilting accent 37 rote recitation 37 pugilistic 37 scribbled furiously 37 conversational prose 37 flinty eyed 37 nit pickers 37 obiter dictum 37 hectoring tone 37 histrionic 37 overfamiliar 37 obtusely 37 succint 37 monotone drone 37 refreshingly candid 37 disdainful 37 smooth tongued 37 stentorian voice 37 legalism 37 whimsicality 37 philosophical musings 37 Understated elegance 37 betchas 37 namby pamby 37 fussbudget 37 quick witted sharp tongued 37 civilities 37 salaciousness 37 zingers 37 gruff 37 tolerantly 37 Elena Kagan confirmation hearings 37 righteously indignant 37 cloying sentimentality 37 inquisitorial 37 decorous 37 TOTENBERG 37 idiosyncratic 37 macho bravado 37 Godardian 37 stilted 37 Newsweek Howard Fineman 37 genial 37 cantankerousness 37 scattergun 37 inarticulacy 37 fairminded 37 accusatorial 37 liberally construing 37 Seuss rhymes 37 clenched teeth 37 Mozartean 37 bullshitter 37 contradictive 37 recriminatory 37 rambling monologues 37 finger wagging 37 sanctimony 37 misspeaks 37 liberal judicial activism 37 stark contradiction 37 directness 37 unmannerly 37 admonitory 37 pronouncements 37 exactingly 37 rambling 37 wishfulness 37 sarcastic quip 37 hamminess 37 schoolboyish 37 journalistic rigor 37 devilish wit 37 diametric opposites 37 mutually contradictory 37 recitation 37 bombastic 37 intemperate 37 glittering generality 37 brow furrowing 37 Niebuhrian 37 elegantly phrased 37 mathematical wizardry 37 muddle headedness 37 ex cathedra 37 ceremonial deism 37 psychoanalyzing 37 disdaining 37 stenotype 37 multilateralist 37 evasively 37 Blank stares 37 disarmingly honest 37 TelePrompTers 37 conceptual underpinnings 37 imperturbability 37 demeanor contrasted sharply 37 unconventionality 37 nonlegal 37 smartass 37 numbing repetition 37 self deprecating quip 37 characteristic candor 37 procedural 37 trenchant wit 37 justifying harsh interrogation 37 jurisprudential 37 womanish 37 monosyllabic grunts 37 self righteous moralizing 37 plainspoken 37 extemporaneous remarks 37 mmfa 37 condescending tone 37 biographical tidbits 37 tightly scripted 37 facile 37 Effete 37 cleverness 37 impolitic 37 gentle persuasion 37 Radsan 37 unintelligently 37 businesslike demeanor 37 pontification 37 cuff banter 37 ambiguous 37 Brian Benczkowski 37 mock incredulity 37 nonplused 37 sly humor 37 sketchily drawn 37 gestures facial expressions 37 faux cockiness 37 sexual peccadilloes 37 Judge Judith Bartnoff 37 rhetorical overkill 37 tortoise shell glasses 37 straight forwardness 37 idiomatic 37 gross mischaracterizations 37 articulately 37 belabored 37 gaffe prone Biden 37 arguers 37 sternness 37 outrageous puns