Politico.com's Jonathan Martin looks at Mr. McCain's strategy for staying relevant, and The Los Angeles Times outlines his upcoming campaign tour, during which he'll highlight parts of his life that are less than flattering, but, he appears to hope, endearing.
Similarly, many of us will be familiar with what happens towards the end of a relationship, when behaviour that previously appeared charming or endearing becomes the opposite.
It seemed as if Tomlinson might have exhausted the possibilities of playing a breed of Englishmen who increasingly appeared more dangerous than endearing.
These appear to be full of endearing enthusiasts such as Neville ("who has been digging away in a gravel pit for 15 years") and John ("who has a licence to catch bats").
Frederick compared the episode to "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School", an episode of USA Network's Monk; she likened Baker's character to that of Andrew McCarthy's in Monk, stating that as a villain, McCarthy was evil yet endearing, while Baker appeared genuinely evil.
Then Franco John Michael Hilll) appears -- an eager, brash, somewhat endearing African American kid with little money but big hopes.
The narcissist appears to be charming, charismatic and endearing to those whom he encounters yet outside of the courtroom, he is calculated, manipulative and many times, downright dangerous.
The most endearing thing about Rooney is that he appears to love what he does.
One of the endearing attributes of the International Contemporary Ensemble, or ICE, is that it appears to have avoided taking on a stylistic agenda.
By the end of the night Trump appeared scared, ensnared and woefully unprepared...while Clinton was composed, disciplined, engaging, endearing and affable (as an aside, I don't think Team-Trump will be accusing her of "not smiling enough" anymore).
Which is, again, quite endearing, because there is nothing a big shagger likes more than to appear in someone else's book as a big shagger.
