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funny 46 illuminative 46 wry asides 46 sardonic wit 46 agit prop 46 subtextual 46 bitingly 46 scathing satire 46 Yasmin Alibhai Brown 46 prose stylist 46 disarmingly frank 46 witty prose 46 historiographical 46 readable prose 46 side splittingly funny 46 humorous 46 mordant wit 46 perspicacious 46 witty urbane 46 sketchwriter 46 unsubtle 46 adroit 46 rapier sharp 46 instructive 46 lacerating wit 46 bleakly funny 46 cavilling 45 elegiac 45 bilious 45 puzzlements 45 apologia 45 refreshingly forthright 45 ripostes 45 Kenneth Tynan 45 controversialist 45 astute 45 masterly 45 overdetermined 45 instructively 45 rumbustious 45 delicious ironies 45 affectionate portrait 45 sneery 45 verbally dexterous 45 didacticism 45 salient 45 Shaun de Waal 45 unerring ear 45 blithe 45 discursive 45 Dave Spart 45 philosopher Roger Scruton 45 incisively 45 lyrical 45 wickedly funny 45 tuneful 45 witty insightful 45 prose 45 contextualizes 45 VS Pritchett 45 disarmingly candid 45 po faced 45 sly wit 45 scornful 45 delphic 45 eruditely 45 Alex Callinicos 45 pellucid 45 utterly unconvincing 45 snappy 45 Pithy 45 Oliver Kamm 45 trenchant observations 45 ambivalences 45 sarcastic wit 45 blackly comic 45 critique 45 Kenan Malik 45 thoughtful 45 Aaronovitch 45 riveting 45 disquieting 45 puerile 44 fatuous 44 caustic 44 wry observations 44 laceratingly 44 Rian Malan 44 humourous 44 Fintan O'Toole 44 Brookmyre 44 latterday 44 witty erudite 44 richly nuanced 44 mawkish sentimentality 44 guffaw inducing 44 hopelessly muddled 44 unadorned prose 44 wickedly clever 44 bathetic 44 disobliging 44 darkly satirical 44 sanctimonious 44 absurdist humor 44 nuanced portrait 44 smug complacency 44 Pelevin 44 clever quips 44 pithier 44 illuminating 44 waggish 44 Rupert Christiansen 44 Great Unraveling 44 frank 44 choicer 44 quippy 44 Roger Scruton 44 barbed 44 Tyrant Novel 44 amusing 44 refreshingly straightforward 44 salutary 44 humorous asides 44 unnuanced 44 irenic 44 neatly encapsulates 44 Petina Gappah 44 unabashedly sentimental 44 bitingly satirical 44 biting satire 44 philosophical 44 bitingly funny 44 slyer 44 visceral 44 pedantic 44 witty acerbic 44 overly preachy 44 wordy 44 incisive critique 44 facile 44 gnomic 44 refreshingly candid 44 philosphical 44 pungent 44 vociferous 44 insouciant 44 Richard Rorty 44 populariser 44 elegantly phrased 44 unflinching 44 Pinteresque 44 Polly Toynbee 44 elegaic 44 plangent 44 compendious 44 immensely readable 44 acerbic wit 44 formidable debater 44 darkly comic 43 wittiest 43 jeu d' esprit 43 Terry Eagleton 43 brutally honest 43 cogitations 43 wryly amusing 43 donnish 43 Anti intellectualism 43 lucid prose 43 jeremiad 43 self mythologizing 43 simplistic 43 obtuse 43 acidulous 43 emotive 43 lugubrious 43 Robert Warshow 43 bracingly 43 dispassionate 43 miserabilism 43 caustic wit 43 damning 43 rhapsodies 43 refreshingly unsentimental 43 fascinating 43 po mo 43 wickedly witty 43 j'accuse 43 sociopolitical commentary 43 aperçu 43 acerbic tongue 43 vitriolic 43 bon mot 43 Jed Perl 43 clever 43 Garet Garrett 43 prose stylists 43 literal minded 43 omniscient narrator 43 facetiousness 43 dyspeptic 43 teacherly 43 gimlet eyed 43 revisionist 43 remarkably prescient 43 sarcastic 43 parodic 43 unimprovable 43 columnist Andrew Rawnsley 43 subtler 43 readable biography 43 expostulation 43 witty quip 43 unrelentingly bleak 43 humerous 43 Michael Kazin 43 endearing trait 43 Gautam Malkani 43 Leon Wieseltier 43 astute observer 43 apercus 43 editorialising 43 tricksy 43 solipsistic 43 Beckettian 43 Nils Pratley 43 Beinhart 43 self pitying 43 startlingly frank 43 feminist Camille Paglia 43 drollness 43 sheer nastiness 43 grumbler 43 mordantly 43 humoristic 43 Sheila Rowbotham 43 poetic prose 43 snarky 43 intricate wordplay 43 ruminations 43 eloquence 43 aperçus 43 authorial voice 43 Andre Bazin 43 howlingly funny 43 savage satire 43 verbose 43 persuasively argued 43 outspoken 43 blackly funny 43 clubbable 43 Timothy Garton Ash 43 intellectually coherent 43 curmudgeonly 43 sneering 43 exhaustively researched 43 light hearted 42 overly romanticized 42 deadpan 42 rigorously researched 42 unremittingly bleak 42 hummable 42 willfully obtuse 42 trenchant criticisms 42 Lasdun 42 disarmingly funny 42 polemicist 42 tactful 42 quick witted 42 précis 42 exhortatory 42 overly melodramatic 42 canny 42 chucklesome 42 seriocomic 42 harrumphs 42 sardonic humor 42 Professor Dershowitz 42 pithiest 42 introspective 42 wry wit 42 apt summation 42 hilarious 42 absurdities 42 self lacerating 42 vivid evocation 42 topical gags 42 de Bellaigue 42 Alberto Manguel 42 cynical 42 Biblical allusions 42 darkly funny 42 perfervid 42 overfamiliar 42 Emma Brockes 42 unrelentingly grim 42 scathingly 42 sly satire 42 self dramatizing 42 lucid 42 lucid exposition 42 approvingly quotes 42 Judith Mackrell 42 Luc Sante 42 precis 42 perceptive observer 42 neo Luddite 42 pathos 42 bitingly witty 42 contemptuously dismissed 42 piquantly 42 delicately nuanced 42 Meticulously researched 42 Damon Linker 42 Partisan Daughter 42 denunciatory 42 hagiographic 42 quotable quote 42 Susannah Clapp 42 redoubtable 42 Interspersing 42 Philip Lopate 42 writerly 42 artless 42 boiled boilerplate 42 Wickedly funny 42 self mythologising 42 razor sharp wit 42 characteristically blunt 42 evocative 42 Shavian 42 Theodore Roszak 42 descriptive prose 42 shrillest 42 wonderfully readable 42 characteristically forthright 42 comical 42 disjunction between 42 politically incorrect 42 fogeyish 42 romanticises 42 banal 42 unquotable 42 miserabilist 42 Quentin Letts 42 Clive Crook 42 bloviated 42 aestheticized 42 witty wordplay 42 rhapsodic 42 voluminous writings 42 cogent arguments 42 Lionel Trilling 42 Garton Ash 42 Kleinzahler 42 terseness 42 maladroit 42 self referential 42 Dorian Lynskey 42 self referential humor 42 digresses 42 humor pathos 42 candid 42 unpoetic 42 concision 42 XN Iraki 42 unapologetic 42 anti globalisers 42 polemics 42 screamingly funny 42 cogent critique 42 punchy 42 individualist anarchism 42 persuasively 42 keenly observant 42 Leo McKinstry 42 Nigger Factory social 42 heartfelt 42 rumbling baritone 42 twistedly 41 idiosyncratic 41 Stuart Klawans 41 Uncommon Reader 41 Decca Aitkenhead 41 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 41 baleful 41 Wartime Prayers 41 provocative 41 subtext 41 William Hazlitt 41 quotable 41 razor sharp 41 bombastic 41 faux naif 41 pseudo philosophical 41 poignantly captures 41 cobra tweeting 41 Eric Hobsbawm 41 eminently quotable 41 Elshtain 41 poignantly 41 bleakly humorous 41 Sophoclean 41 sly humor 41 armchair philosopher 41 ad hominen 41 RH Tawney 41 counterpointing 41 delightfully irreverent 41 witty irreverent 41 beguiling 41 dry wit 41 sneering condescension 41 serio comic 41 Anglocentric 41 limns 41 Richard Brookhiser 41 explicates 41 refreshingly frank 41 Thought provoking 41 achingly funny 41 Max Beerbohm 41 Robert Skidelsky 41 doubleness 41 contemporary resonances 41 franker 41 archness 41 impeccably researched 41 darkly comical 41 proto feminist 41 Lisa Schiffren 41 pithy phrases 41 AC Grayling 41 ineloquent 41 drearily familiar 41 minatory 41 tendentious 41 Samuel Brittan 41 clipped cadence 41 clichéd 41 trenchant critique 41 finely wrought 41 Xolela Mangcu 41 Walter Pater 41 unintentionally humorous 41 mythologising 41 intertextual 41 clunky exposition 41 wild gesticulations 41 biting wit 41 trenchant critic 41 utterly baffling 41 Guardian Jonathan Freedland 41 pithiness 41 intellectualised 41 mot juste 41 trenchant wit 41 BFI Currency 41 mellifluous 41 QUENTIN LETTS 41 perceptively 41 jokey 41 panegyric 41 impassivity 41 Mungo MacCallum 41 intellectual pretensions 41 musicological 41 Dominic Cavendish 41 contextualises 41 critiques 41 intertextuality 41 scattergun 41 fatuousness 41 dialogue crackles 41 longwinded 41 threnody 41 loquacious 41 searingly 41 Iain Macwhirter 41 counterpoints 41 satirising 41 Dostoevskian 41 ironic counterpoint 41 moralizing 41 Ian Buruma 41 laconic 41 Bright Sided 41 Satirist 41 compellingly 41 literary allusions 41 limned 41 NYTBR 41 sanctimoniousness 41 recondite 41 Braindead Megaphone 41 Plainspoken 41 beautifully wrought 41 witty lyrics 41 waxes eloquent 41 ironies 41 cri de coeur 41 Homeric epic 41 sociopolitical 41 vivid portrait 41 astute observation 41 ressentiment 41 Elaine Scarry 41 Declan Kiberd 41 theories propounded 41 tautly constructed 41 satires 41 wry understated 41 piercingly 41 Gary Giddins 41 Terrence Rafferty 41 temperamentally inclined 41 post structuralist 41 aptly summarizes 41 inflects 41 dismissive 41 uproarious 41 postmodernist 41 Joe Sobran 41 cogent explanation 41 philosophic 41 richly layered 41 uncannily prescient 41 unspontaneous 41 uninflected 41 characteristic candor 41 hamfisted 41 psychologically astute 41 unignorable 41 subtle 41 critic Kenneth Tynan 41 sinister undertones 41 witty retorts 41 Dave Kehr 41 protean 41 unsensational 41 blokeish 41 Panglossian 41 Cosmo Landesman 41 Daniel Larison 41 demurrals 41 BFI Currency market 41 subtlety 41 unembarrassed 41 cherishable 41 unblinkered 41 eliding 41 Eusebius McKaiser 41 elide 41 Anvita Dutt Guptan 41 uproariously funny 41 flippant 40 self exculpation 40 thinly sketched 40 deft 40 piquant 40 novelist Margaret Drabble 40 percipient 40 nuance 40 philosophical musings 40 Chekhovian 40 Acerbic 40 unflinching honesty 40 pertinently 40 sagacious 40 uncomfortable truths 40 excursus 40 panegyrics 40 paraphrases 40 mawkish 40 narrative coherence 40 mirthful 40 uncannily accurate 40 Rational Optimist 40 commonplaces 40 wonkery 40 richly imaginative 40 Widow Story 40 doleful 40 Quarterly Essay 40 Peter Oborne 40 mawkishly 40 Elif Batuman 40 unedifying 40 savagely satirical 40 obdurate 40 novelist Evelyn Waugh 40 Stanley Hauerwas 40 self reflexive 40 evocative prose 40 neatly summarizes 40 astutely observed 40 lush romanticism 40 Marion Winik 40 Schama 40 writes movingly 40 formidable intellect 40 Mearsheimer Walt paper 40 Peter Van Onselen 40 cleverly constructed 40 perspicuous 40 verbal dexterity 40 disquisition 40 ironic 40 NYT op ed 40 cunningly crafted 40 economism 40 John Gapper 40 sharp tongued 40 postmodern 40 satirical jabs 40 unscholarly 40 homiletic 40 When Sexes Collide 40 brutally frank 40 dissects 40 empassioned 40 explication 40 charlatanry 40 eloquently 40 Brownism 40 overly didactic 40 self abasing 40 provacative 40 sharp witted 40 Shanta Gokhale Her 40 cogency 40 David Aaronovitch 40 hectoring 40 Vertov 40 Julian Baggini 40 clearest illustration 40 Jesuitical 40 slangy 40 eloquent speeches 40 hortatory 40 Ta Nehisi Coates 40 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 40 bons mots 40 Anouilh 40 versifying 40 heavily footnoted 40 sentimentalise 40 toe curlingly embarrassing 40 Slavoj Žižek 40 diaristic 40 existentialist philosophy 40 Ronald Firbank 40 empty platitudes 40 Couched 40 Slavoj Zizek 40 fabulism 40 belaboured 40 compelling 40 ruefulness 40 prophetic 40 Andrew Klavan 40 Status Anxiety 40 tunefully 40 Louis Ferdinand Céline 40 Mazower 40 imagistic 40 acutely observant 40 Leavis 40 Rancière 40 Andrew Billen 40 pompousness 40 sarcasms 40 virulent 40 epistolary 40 saturnine 40 sanguinely 40 wit 40 salutary reminder 40 Tóibín 40 Supercapitalism 40 brooked 40 logically incoherent 40 Nigel Farndale 40 blackly 40 infelicities 40 thrillingly 40 acerbity 40 declarative sentence 40 child's eye view 40 Alfred Kazin 40 Louvish 40 sanctimony 40 authorative 40 reframes 40 Seamus Deane 40 vocalising 40 escapist fiction 40 Guido Fawkes blog 40 stylistics 40 Sounes 40 epigrams 40 Times Literary Supplement 40 cogent argument 40 sparkling repartee 40 tellingly 40 mordantly witty 40 Absurdist 40 self righteous 40 lyricism 40 tu quoque 40 formidably intelligent 40 expostulated 40 Neville Cardus 40 hyperarticulate 40 sweetly sentimental 40 Liberal Fascism 40 zestful 40 formalist 40 inane 40 uncritical 40 Announcers shout 40 enlightening 40 fisking 40 Niall Ferguson 40 obiter dicta 40 unashamedly sentimental 40 eulogistic 40 wryness 40 Fredric Jameson 40 Daphne Merkin 40 cogitation 40 kneejerk 40 Eamonn Dunphy 40 Edward Luttwak 40 succinctly summarizes 40 Worldly Philosophers 40 humourlessness 40 Improbable Frequency 40 dissembles 40 penetratingly 40 revisionism 40 begrudgery 40 magisterial 40 Voodoo Histories 40 inimitable 40 locus classicus 40 Joycean 40 schoolboyish 40 Times reviewer Michiko 40 biting sarcasm 40 quotable quotes 40 towering intellect 40 tragi comedy 40 dogmatist 40 Tunku Varadarajan 40 Darkly funny 40 backhanded compliments 40 richly ironic 40 stentorian 40 finely honed 40 Katie Roiphe 40 absurdism 40 trenchant commentary 40 Continetti 40 venemous 40 Thom Gunn 40 opinionated 40 prolixity 40 gut bustingly funny 40 billet doux 40 voluble 40 articulacy 40 Unknown Terrorist 40 musicianly 40 refutation 40 decidedly unfunny 40 commentary 40 counterblast 40 persiflage 40 acerbically 40 astringent 40 Clem Attlee 40 dryly funny 40 Madeleine Bunting 40 razor wit 40 anodyne 39 mealymouthed 39 shamelessly manipulative 39 Ngugi wa 39 documentarylike 39 songlike 39 philosophising 39 Jay Nordlinger 39 querulous 39 David Rieff 39 witticisms 39 Gary Younge 39 overtly sexist 39 bitterly ironic 39 maundering 39 soul rending 39 exquisitely nuanced 39 crotchets 39 heartrending 39 sweetly nostalgic 39 punditry 39 articulate 39 absorbingly 39 epiphanic 39 engagingly 39 stridency 39 Margaret Drabble 39 Freakanomics 39 cliché ridden 39 devilish wit 39 dogmatic 39 captivating 39 explications 39 rambling incoherent 39 consummate storyteller 39 genuflections 39 declinism 39 delightfully witty 39 didactic 39 searing 39 post structuralism 39 Anatole Kaletsky 39 larky 39 reproachful 39 self deprecatory humor 39 veddy British 39 cleverly worded 39 Pietro Aretino 39 Slouching Towards Bethlehem 39 shockingly candid 39 Ambrose Bierce defined 39 wholly unconvincing 39 Myles na 39 peevishness 39 Wendy Ide 39 Edmund Gosse 39 Gayatri Spivak 39 filmable 39 grimly amusing 39 Kevin McCarra 39 Mike Marqusee 39 bombastically 39 satirist PJ O'Rourke 39 irreverent wit 39 pugnacious 39 sociological 39 witty retort 39 perspicuity 39 overemphatic 39 feminist theorists 39 fullsome 39 unshowy 39 Michael Dirda 39 weltanschauung 39 finely shaded 39 adduces 39 absurdist 39 Hillaire Belloc 39 shockingly callous 39 fury signifying 39 caustically funny 39 semiotic 39 captivating melodies