Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partly because the meeting's agenda had called only for a discussion of nuclear missile deployment in Europe; the Polish question might have been considered a separate political matter. But Weinberger followed up his intelligence presentation with a day and a half of lobbying, effectively mixing "stubbornness and charm," as one European delegate put it. In the end, the Secretary got almost all he wanted: a strong oral statement on Poland and a unanimous decision to stick with the 1983 timetable for deploying U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles.in Europe...
Control. Along with cool charm, good looks and an obsessive desire to walk in her husband's shadow, control is a buttress of Nancy Reagan's persona...
...camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest and most sacred words in any world, incarcerating the wizard in a cocoon of cotton candy as she proclaims victory over her mentor, Mirren convinces that she could charm a kingdom-or a film- with her perfidy...
...more than that, ranging from drunken despair to crisp reformation to, finally, gentle acquiescence in Bridges' fantasy. But the energy cell powering the whole works is Heard. Recent movies have been full of psychopaths, but this is the definitive statement on that snaky breed. The alternation of charm and rage, of bravado and self-pity-above all the watchful intelligence in the eyes, judging just how far he can go before people revolt against his manipulations-all this marks Heard's as a big but never too broad performance. That somehow one keeps liking him, laughing...
...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...