Ben

Merrymaker, balladeer of Irish folk songs, flim-flam man, racketeer, perfect cheekbones, antihero, cobbler, chiseled torso, carnival barker, intellectual blowhard, killer smile, stewbum, newshawk, layabout, baller and/or shot caller, sentence clinician, debonair, public intellectual, tinkerer, stevedore, grifter, Freemason, rum runner, lover of romance languages, freighthopper, morally erect, huckster, populist, Olympic-class bullshitter, gutter poet, street busker, shadowboxer, tenderfoot, art-school rocker, fashion plate, lane-changer, gerrymanderer, postmaster general, tavern keeper, textbook jump shot, character actor, raconteur, troubadour, messianic, nighthawk, cabin boy, barroom brawler, gadabout, shut-in, war profiteer, trickster hero, neighborhood cartographer, shanty Irish, boulevardier, minister to the flock, shoe shine boy, merchant mariner, impresario, swindler, cognoscenti, skywriter, hype man, paramour, vagabond, rough customer, minor-note celebrity, fly-by-night restlessness, visionary, peripatetic, scrivner, fast-talking slicker, cult of personality, bedroom eyes, gentleman caller, cold confidence, simpleton, wordsmith, wise acre, gunslinger, skirt chaser, greenhorn, avatar, avaricious, financier, dealmaker, tribal elder, salty wit, basketball hooligan, known quantity, cottage industry, social maladapt, operatic, draconian, ace lieutenant, flatfoot, small drink of water, foremost expert, erstwhile second banana, regal bloodlines, blue-chip prospect, incurable spendthrift, chronic goodsport, pop alchemist, plus-size model, telegenic appeal, politico, hillbilly, gaucho, folksy quality, cultural custodian, enabler, exemplar, saboteur, gadfly, scenester, bandwagoneer, doomsayer, one-note singer, svengali, plutocrat, finagler, dockwalloper, ranch hand, monologuist, roustabout, Keatsian visage, jukebox hero, village idiot, pool shark, stalwart, cosmographer, polymath, vassalage, malinger, mendicant, parvenu, marauder, maladroit, recluse.