glib, platitudinous, rebarbative, polemical, bathetic, fatuous, gnomic, sanctimonious, prolix, blither, pedantic, banal, lunkheaded, aphoristic, nabokovian, grandiloquent, ineloquent, hackneyed, wordy, vacuous, digressive, admonitory, pithy, trite, overfamiliar, didactic, solipsistic, shavian, overdetermined, jesuitical, jejune, melodramatic, mawkish, pompous, substanceless, schoolmarmish, teacherly, obtuse, orotund, hyperbolic, homiletic, moralistic, unpoetic, discursive, disobliging, swiftian, denunciatory, portentous, erudite, jamesian, pantomimic, tendentious, unamusing, longwinded, mealymouthed, hortatory, unrevealing, lachrymose, whiggish, essayistic, abstruse, contentless, droll, existentialist philosophy, delphic, recriminatory, trenchant, parodic, addlepated, recondite, epigrammatic, onanistic, unheroic, dostoevskian, panglossian, unaffecting, schoolmasterly, tricksy, overwrought, eulogistic, histrionic, unenlightening, jingoistic, ahistorical, hagiographic, lugubrious, max beerbohm, latterday, florid, sophoclean, sesquipedalian, maudlin, soporific, bons mots, tu quoque, mot juste, deconstructionist, puerile, declamatory, affectless, sneery, grand guignol, terse, laconic, quotable, exclamatory, jocular, sarcastic, noncommittal, witty, bombastic, committal, cryptic

pithy, sententiously, sobersided

concise, pretentious