Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
Before Katrina, New Orleans was a basket case, albeit a charming one, with a corrupt government, an entitlement mentality and a decaying public sector.
It's clear that Peter Russo is a mess, albeit an occasionally charming one, and also that he is just one more game piece on Frank's chess board.
As a host he is charming, albeit one who is too sharp (and egotistical) to let his guests speak uninterrupted for more than 10 seconds.
The fallen chef, with his charming, albeit love-hungry, bright blue eyes, is seeing somebody, though you can sense his heart isn't really in it.
Its heroine, Dominique, is a terminally bored 20-year-old with existentialist leanings, none the wiser than her predecessor, albeit with a charming (and distinctly French) sense of nonspecific doom.
The "grey, old, pre-human world" that Laurens van der Post wrote about in 1952 retains the same sense of wildness today, albeit tamed by charming colonial-era mountain huts that stitch the walking routes together.
Joy herself isn't charming but charmed — she's a sort of secret genius who stands out for her character even when it stands far ahead of her accomplishments, a prodigy (albeit of untapped talents).
Austin Moorehead shows off his versatility on mandolin and guitar but they're all charming, albeit strong musically than as singers.
I happened to read a charming, albeit nauseating little news item that tried to skulk by unnoticed recently, wherein it was announced that the Huntington Meat Packing Co. of Southern California was expanding its recall of possibly E. coli-tainted meat, from just over 860,000 pounds to... wait for it... five million pounds.
