eloquent, witty, urbane, perspicacious, perceptive, amiable, genial, sagacious, affable, loquacious, pithy, pompous, garrulous, insightful, verbose, astute, droll, thoughtful, opinionated, pedantic, acerbic, professorial, waspish, prolix, articulate, avuncular, glib, studious, owlish, trenchant, sententious, orotund, voluble, irenic, compendious, recondite, aphoristic, scholarly, cerebral, donnish, praiseful, wry, clubbable, supercilious, dispassionate, irascible, pretentious, bon vivant, bons mots, rebarbative, eminent, lucid, shavian, gnomic, enlightening, william hazlitt, alexander woollcott, florid, curmudgeonly, epigrammatic, rabelaisian, unexcitable, polymathic, jocular, mannerly, highbrow, untutored, likeable, hemingwayesque, inquisitive, quotable, personable, polemical, pious, teacherly, illuminative, incisive, bookish, intellectual, poetical, sardonic, intelligent, debonair, opinioned, amusing, schoolmasterly, harold nicolson, ineloquent, gregarious, obtuse, acidulous, suave, max beerbohm, quippy, laconic, disputatious, irreverent, unpretentious, lionel trilling, unquotable, mannered, bibulous, learned, distinguished, influential, respected, uninspired, wellinformed, antiquarian, profane, regarded, sanskrit, anonymous, biblical

eruditely, highbrow, learnedly