Macdonald's outspokenness and volubility gained many detractors. Cicero speaks of him as an orator of great fire and volubility. Aschenbach is greeted by the Hotel Manager, who shows him his room with ingratiating volubility. She is noted in contemporary accounts for her attractiveness, volubility and eccentricities. The sophists breathe "philosophical air" and were "dialectically inspired to a formal volubility". "Logorrhoea", also known as "volubility", is characterized by fluent and rambling speech using numerous words.