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compassionate: share the suffering of
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detached: showing lack of emotional involvement
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didactic: instructive
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disdainful: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
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elegiac: expressing sorrow or lamentation
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facetious: cleverly amusing in tone
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gothic: characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
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idyllic: excellent and delightful in all respects
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inspiring: encouraging, motivating
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jingoistic: fanatically patriotic
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laudatory: full of praise
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lugubrious: mournful
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macabre: grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject
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maudlin: overly sentimental
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mock-serious: pretending to be serious
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naive: lacking sophistication
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nostalgic: unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
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objective: undistorted by emotion or personal bias
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patriotic: inspired by love for your country
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pedantic: tending to show off one's learning
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reflective: devoted to matters of the mind
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remorseful: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
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reverent: deeply respectful
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sarcastic: the use of witty language used to insult or show displeasure
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sardonic: Grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic
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satiric: ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
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scathing: bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm
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scornful: expressing offensive reproach
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sentimental: effusively or insincerely emotional
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spiritual: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
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vituperative: marked by harshly abusive criticism
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wistful: yearning