Word: charme
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...With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
...World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious in person as he is imposing on stage. So his performance at the Regency isn?t method acting, apparently. It?s just an unfurling of his natural charm...
...where the band’s less-epic Simon and Garfunkel is paraded along with tweedy violins and plucked guitars. The meeting of voice is seamless, as is the meeting of minds: Kings of Convenience combine two talents and form an organic whole that will surely charm in concert all who are able to hear...
...wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events of his life. His effortless description of how good and evil things just happen to him and how he manages to cope as best as he can is the principal charm of his memoirs. In All for Love, about his love affairs, women walk into his life, announce that they love him; then they announce that they don't anymore and leave. In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing, he is a young man with...
...English expression is, properly, "to the manor born" - implying a natural inherited talent for the particular accomplishment under discussion. It is most frequently employed to connote social grace or charm...