delphic, aphoristic, oracular, sententious, cryptic, schoolmasterly, epigrammatic, jamesian, inscrutable, polysyllabic, prolix, sesquipedalian, deathless, monosyllabic, orotund, glib, pithy, digressive, homiletic, monkish, teacherly, jesuitical, ludwig wittgenstein, rebarbative, laconic, saturnine, abstruse, florid, hieratic, droll, obtuse, sarky, jejune, grandiloquent, ludic, erudite, pythonesque, mot juste, recondite, donnish, pedantic, tricksy, wordy, etiolated, bons mots, subjunctive, idiosyncratic, nabokovian, ineloquent, uninflected, diagrammatic, verbose, schoolboyish, latinate, prosaic, sidelong, affectless, overfamiliar, disobliging, swiftian, deadpan, unpoetic, essayistic, lavatorial, billet doux, longwinded, lugubrious, stephen spender, sneery, holmesian, hemingwayesque, philosophic, exhortatory, hilaire belloc, shavian, wry, esoteric, poetic, lumpish, stygian, quippy, waspish, max beerbohm, whiggish, pointillistic, pellucid, sphinxlike, thomas malory, onomatopoetic, alliterative, chaucerian, pompous, deprecatory, goatish, unforthcoming, phrasal, enigmatic, queen mab, winkingly, minatory, toneless, percy bysshe shelley, hortatory, hymnic, exclamatory, formulaic, quotable, platitudinous, allusive, declamatory, elegiac, incantatory, eulogistic, lyrical