Word: charm
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...photographs reveal the younger O?Grady to have been a handsome man, and some of the victims? testimony hints at a kind of insinuating charm about the man. You can see how he might worm his way into the good graces of simple, pious people, for whom unquestioning faith is a ruling factor in their lives. Another priest, a church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier...
...with 73 points, rounding out the top four. “I was really pleased with how I sailed,” Johnson said of his performance. “I’ve finished third and second twice [at nationals], so hopefully the fourth time will be the charm.” Freshman Drew Robb also competed in the event, coming in at seventh-place in the 29-man field. It proved to be arguably Harvard’s best performance of the year midway through the fall season. The berth is especially sweet for Kovacs, who qualified...
...handsome and trim, a former jock who's still in shape. He wears jeans and has an almost actorly sense of self-possession about him. He talks in measured phrases. He doesn't fidget. If you feel like a Diet Coke, he'll fetch it himself. His charm is Clintonian; in fact, the two are distant cousins...
...rent fan machines that disperse the scents into the air. Smaller retailers can buy simple smells--sage and pomegranate, rosemary eucalyptus, white ginger--off the rack for $100 a month, including fan rental. And ScentAir is expanding its repertoire by cooking up smells that are meant not to charm but to repel: last month it re-created the smell of burning electrical wire for a military simulation; earlier, it had dreamed up dinosaur dung for a children's museum...
...bullet hot...We were hoping for more of a vote for the ‘sophisticated women.’ A ‘then she unbuttoned her tweedy regalia’ kind of thing.” What some nominees lacked in looks though, they compensated for in charm. “There was a guy nominated from Cornell who teaches a class in gender theory or something that allows him to show porn in class. And apparently he comes in one day of the year wearing a dominatrix suit, and ‘S&M’ kind...