Sentence examples for alternating charm from inspiring English sources
She cultivated Tory allies, alternating charm and steel.
Amid all the cartoon characterisations, the most complex and sympathetic - or at least pathetic - figure is Kim, played with alternating charm and menace by Randall Park.
The place was Britain not America, and the setting was politics not show business, but the center-stage figure was the same -- a roguish schemer alternating overdressed charm with naked greed and ending up the victim of his own hilariously misguided cunning.
Mr. Cruise pours on his characteristic intensity and lights up the board with alternating flashes of charm, sincerity, gravity, indignation and outrage.
With a folksy preacher style that alternated between country charm and righteous indignation, Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's former chief executive, took the stand on Monday to argue that he had nothing to do with the crimes that helped cause the collapse of the company he founded.
Karma Wilson (the "Bear Snores On" series, the "Calico" books) wields her nearly infallible charms in telling the story, in alternating rhyme, of the Farmer's ultimately happy comeuppance.
But, Weisz seems to alternate between full-force charm and a certain belligerent defensiveness.
The witty storyteller who could charm an audience alternated with the irascible loner who alienated many of his allies.
You've gotta do "Clybourne Park"!' " said Mr. Kwei-Armah, 46, a tall Briton of African-Grenadian descent who alternates easily between glad-handing charm and utter earnestness.
Languid charm alternates with vivid coloration.
Yet there is a gravitas that alternates with the charm, one he says all artists have as they experience the "exaltation versus the depression, the shifts of mood... Nobody loves being unhappy," or being a "brooding soul" (even if that's what we expect from Russian literature), yet it comes with the territory of "chasing something that is not quite manageable".
