prophetic, perspicacious, perceptive, astute, trenchant, insightful, eloquent, foolish, instructive, apposite, delphic, ironic, plausible, portentous, hubristic, foolhardy, apocalyptic, impolitic, sagacious, sententious, arthur schlesinger, implausible, shrewd, pollyannaish, sanguine, seminal, wishful, hyperbolic, obtuse, cogent, propitious, contrarian, presumptuous, revelatory, succinct, ominous, farfetched, prophetical, erudite, counterintuitive, sobering, persuasive, glib, calamitous, panglossian, unpropitious, iconoclastic, apt, fatuous, commonsensical, cataclysmic, infelicitous, lionel trilling, politically incorrect, pithier, aphoristic, preposterous, ahistorical, stephen spender, overblown, farsighted, whiggish, circumspect, percipient, dicey, filmable, pessimistic, unsettling, canny, barbara tuchman, fortuitous, heretical, naive, nuanced, infallible, eggheaded, salutary, heady, alexander woollcott, poignant, salient, unwise, flippant, caveated, lucid, foresighted, dismissive, apocalyptical, wrongheaded, alarmist, oracular, oxymoronic, audacious, visionary, overdetermined, cryptic, quixotic, epochal, rosy, strident, disobliging, dire, \u2022, acrimony, adhesive, adolescent, agility, alacrity, alarm, alertness, alleviations, animation, anxiety, ardor, asthma, attainable, attention, avail, avidity, awe, barley, bitterness, penetrating, incisive, provocative, candid, statesmanlike, acerbic, unprejudiced, dispassionate, enlightening, revealing, thoughtful

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