Sigur Ros cheated a bit charmingly.
And, in an act of charmingly ludicrous design, some Densha de Go controllers feature their own dead-man's handles.
And it is charmingly acted, with Mr. Mandell bringing to mind John Gielgud in his impish old age and Ms. Benko and Ms. Nogulich capturing precisely the worldly warmth and arrogance I associate with upper-crust Italian women.
Set at the turn of the previous century, as imagined through state-of-the-art production values (the film keeps one eye on old-school chopsocky and the other on new-school superproductions), "Fearless" breaks into three neat acts, each of them charmingly anachronistic.
Davit Karapetyan and Myles Thatcher as Prince Guillaume and his best friend Benjamin won the audience's hearts with marvelously buoyant dancing, their boyhood antics charmingly rendered in Act I by young students Benjamin Bender and Andrew Boosalis.
The scoring of an 1832 Glinka trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano emphasized the country lilt of its melodies, an elegant folk idiom that Stravinsky would echo in his one-act comic opera "Mavra" (1921-22), charmingly performed on Sunday.
They get local DJs and visiting acts to swing through their charmingly rustic studio and shell it for a few hours.
Sometimes they move like robots (they are truly under a spell), but other times — charmingly, and comically — they act like teen-age girls, giggling, telling secrets, skittering around.
A BILL circulating in the House of Representatives, the charmingly named Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, aims to overturn a 70-year prohibition on cameras in federal courtrooms.
Writers' lives are notoriously difficult to dramatize in a visual medium, even when the act of writing itself is conducted by means of a charmingly obsolete technology, like Goethe's furiously scratching pens or Thompson's clattery typewriter.
