Word: charme
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...starts to suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang and the charm of Peter Sarsgaard...
Although this theme has found its way into many a teen movie, Angarano, best known for playing Jack’s long-lost son on “Will and Grace,” has the charm and inflection to pull it off. The 17-year-old star (one thing Disney does consistently well is hire actual teens to play teens in its movies) plays the nice but sometimes clueless guy in a style reminiscent of a young, less cynical John Cusack...
...dictators. Otherwise we could destroy this country." Standing side by side, the steadfast Vei Koso, 42, and Polutele, 43 - each 100 kg and counting - bring to mind two industrial refrigerators, one set at cool, the other at ultra-cool. Vei Koso exudes calm, Polutele is all charm. From the Ha'apai group of islands, they each have five children and have spent nine months in Solomon Islands. Vei Koso is a senior corporal who specializes in prosecutions. He spends most of his time with the Solomon Islands police officers in Munda, pursuing new leads on old cases and imparting...
...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
...Tuttle operates in delightful ways. A picture like 20 Pearls (12), from 2003, with its lozenges of black and its mustard-and-gray smear at the center, reduces painting to a few simple forms and gestures, attaches no compensating theory and still holds the eye with its ramshackle decorative charm...