perceptive, astute, erudite, insightful, sagacious, prescient, whiggish, farseeing, enlightened, cogent, opinioned, opinionated, sagest, untutored, equanimous, eloquent, empiricist, egocentric, orotund, irenic, omniscient, trenchant, delphic, incisive, pedantic, recondite, oracular, witty, iconoclastic, pompous, dispassionate, objectivist, observant, estimable, sapient, glib, hemingwayesque, eminent, percipient, prolix, credulous, thoughtful, hilaire belloc, farsighted, commonsensical, dostoevskian, literate, pithy, waspish, articulate, canny, ineloquent, supercilious, lionel trilling, uncharitable, alexander woollcott, redoubtable, aphoristic, william hazlitt, inquisitive, conceited, illuminative, sententious, quotable, discerning, max beerbohm, ungifted, deluded, perspicuous, russophile, heterodox, visionary, polemical, compendious, eggheaded, epigrammatic, intemperate, perfervid, jesuitical, lucid, andre gide, thomas babington macaulay, urbane, emersonian, vilfredo pareto, schoolmarmish, arthur schlesinger, empathetic, shrewd, obtuse, impertinent, solipsistic, clearheaded, undogmatic, unintelligent, prophetic, walter lippmann, la rochefoucauld, dyspeptic, hegelian, positivist, fearless, unprejudiced, informed, candid, wellinformed, prejudiced, appreciative, judicious, penetrating, shrewder, sighted

clear-eyed, clear-sighted, wise