Word: charm
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...mean, where's the charm? There's no suggestion of the charismatic creepiness of Hopkins' Lecter - that mysterious, chatty, seductive beast so beguiling you'd immediately invite him to dinner. (But don't let him serve you.) The movie lays out the reasons this boy became that man, but without establishing a connection between the two, in looks or personality...
...sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
...third time Duboc regained serve was the charm, as the veteran sealed the win with two consecutive forehand winners...
...production some historical depth without making it a period piece, so I set the opera in the late 1950s/early 1960s. It made sense to present the Count and Countess as operatic versions of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Onassis, considering the Count’s frequent infidelities but overwhelming charm, and the Countess’s penchant for forgiveness...
...gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss. Mere charm we can do without, but humanity and civility are essential. These are the collaborative qualities without which no institution of higher learning, no matter how rich or famous, can flourish. We assume fundamental administrative competence, honesty in matters great and small, and a rightly regulated ambition as essential...