laudatory, eulogistic, unquotable, erudite, unoffensive, effusive, sarcastic, reverent, wordier, essayistic, scornful, pithy, adulatory, bathetic, epigrammatic, trenchant, unpoetic, eloquent, platitudinous, reproachful, irenic, unilluminating, cadenced, kyrie eleison, wry, eggheaded, rapturous, bromidic, rhapsodic, jauntier, gushy, schoolmasterly, exhortatory, jocose, hagiographic, witty, jesuitical, glib, teacherly, mordant, songful, unmelodic, aphoristic, gleeful, singsongy, unsensational, bons mots, songlike, delphic, wordsworthian, quippy, heartfelt, reverential, unexcitable, denunciatory, exclamatory, vitriolic, droll, slangy, unrevealing, dismissive, snide, condemnatory, disobliging, condescending, toneless, equanimous, inoffensive, mealymouthed, mot juste, orotund, unenlightening, tuneful, minatory, sententious, overfamiliar, insouciant, unembarrassed, emersonian, mellifluous, admonitory, maudlin, humorous, derisive, sermonic, sardonic, prophetical, schoolmarmish, rebarbative, pretentious, lit crit, prolix, succinct, ineloquent, incantatory, splenetic, elegiac, hortatory, praiseworthy, snarky, bon mot, lachrymose, libellous, lascivious, lugubrious, obscene, pathetic, scurrilous, alluring, beggar, boastful, bombastic, cheerful, demotic, ecstatic, entrancing, exultant, familiar, glad

complimentary, praising