Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good listen, in a twisted way, like a recorded suicide note or a videotaped last will and testament. You'll find yourself rewinding it a lot. It has that kind of Macabre charm--just in time for those first paper deadlines...
...Every time she's at a game, it's like a good-luck charm for Kristy," Wheaton said of the high school sophomore from Littleton, Co. "When I went to watch Kristy play back in high school, her sister was there, and Kristy scored a goal. Today, her sister just happened to be up for the game, and Kristy was the hero...
...dominant view among Western analysts is that Milosevic still has his hands full with Bosnia, and will avoid extending the war to Kosovo until his current charm offensive to secure diplomatic recognition of Serbia's gains in Bosnia has stalled. "But we have continually underestimated the savagery of this war," says a Western diplomat. "Kosovo is the one unifying issue he's got." If economic sanctions and international isolation make Serbs restive about Milosevic's rule, he could find a Kosovo clash very useful to prevent a coup by more radical Serbs who would consider peace a betrayal...
...firsthand. "At some point," says journalist Gustavo Gorriti, "he persuaded himself that he was not only a qualified leader but had both a national and a world responsibility." Scholars differ about Guzman's intellectual gifts, but they agree that he was an outstanding organizer who was capable of great charm and attentiveness...
...even flops in the self-pity department. Most of the tunes are simply yawn-inducing regurgitations of familiar material. Morrissey sounds unconvinced as he sighs, "All my life no one ever gave me anything." By the time he whimpers out a half-hearted "I wish I had the charm to attract the one I love...you see I've got no charm," you'll be inclined to agree...