Word: endearing
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...stature as his generation's most daring, most distinctive filmmaker and one of its signature eccentrics does not automatically endear Herzog to Hollywood. Though estimable actors from Claudia Cardinale to Tim Roth have graced his films and though in the late '70s he had a project (Fitzcarraldo) that was to be produced by Francis Ford Coppola and star Jack Nicholson, Herzog knows that in the U.S. the big-money guys are as averse to risk as he is addicted...
...number of very ambiguous texts, or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory." As Archbishop of Wales he admitted knowingly ordaining at least one noncelibate gay man. When he moved with his wife and two children to Lambeth Palace in 2002, the Herald newspaper of Glasgow enthused, "What will endear him to the people ... is that he has the courage of his convictions, however unpopular they...
Some providers offer the service for free to customers that accept text message ads, a possibility that did not endear such a system to some...
...course there is no special merit in things like chain restaurants and local government, except that they are part of the fabric that binds Americans together. That should be enough to endear them to us. If not, what does a Harvard graduate working on Wall Street have in common with the schoolteachers and cops whose retirement funds she manages...
...Lithuania, stays with his uncle's widow, the ravishing Lady Murasaki (Gong Li). It seems that the sexuality she awakens in him also helps trigger his homicidal impulses. He commits a murder to satisfy her besmirched honor; he sees his crime as an act of chivalric protectiveness that will endear him to lovely Lady M., and might prove to her that he's not a troubled child but a heroic man. Now we're tiptoeing toward Oedipus Rex: Will Hannibal kill a man in order to have sex with his aunt...