Word: charmingly
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...Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
...Millburn never had a very good team," she says. "Part of his charm was that he wanted to be a football player, and he practiced and practiced and practiced...
Garner's Vandergelder develops a great deal in front of us, with the delicate help of Channing's Dolly. Dolly is a shrewd businesswoman who teaches Vandergelder not only to love her but how to become more shrewd in his business dealings. Dolly's charm mesmerizes Vandergelder; he learns from her without realizing he is being taught...
...compare them to. The lengthening of the ride on the Milennium Falcon is gratuitous because we know exactly how it should sound. Obi Wan wouldn't have expounded at such length on the nature of Han's character, and the new condition of the ship. Ben Kenobi's charm was that he always said enough, but never too much. Writer Brian Daley has given him too much baggage dialogue...
...died last week of a heart attack at 80, the first modernist movie hunk. He sprang to prominence in the emotional chaos after World War II and was a star in his first role, as the doomed Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which he won an Oscar...