reproachful, sententious, aphoristic, nabokovian, premonitory, portentous, denunciatory, cadenced, exhortatory, pantomimic, lachrymose, platitudinous, epigrammatic, toneless, schoolmasterly, incantatory, minatory, irenic, obtuse, sneery, rebarbative, interrogative, homiletic, pithier, orotund, parodic, pedantic, billet doux, lugubrious, uninflected, droll, decipherable, teacherly, baleful, quavery, eulogistic, plangent, sardonic, ineloquent, wordier, hortatory, condemnatory, wordsworthian, epiphanic, dostoevskian, onomatopoetic, humerous, denotative, unsubtle, prefatory, speakable, unpoetic, sermonic, literalized, delphic, trenchant, memento mori, banal, unquotable, accusative, perspicuous, essayistic, unmusical, wry, unuttered, elegiac, eloquent, pathetic fallacy, overfamiliar, schoolmarmish, mordant, sesquipedalian, declarative sentence, mozartian, poetic, digressive, sidelong, florid, tu quoque, inexpressive, contentless, recriminatory, overdetermined, hieratic, vivifying, acidulous, querulous, sonorous, percipient, unmelodic, gnomic, prolix, amusing, unaffecting, sophoclean, accusatory, shrill, responsorial, affectless, unvaried, cryptic, declamatory, cautionary, monitory, consolatory, congratulatory, deprecatory, apologetic, commendatory, edifying, inspirational, complimentary

admonishing, dissuasive, exemplary, reproving, unfavorable, unfavourable, warning