50 Cent and his G Unit have shown the world that big-money boasts often sound best when they're surrounded by bloody threats; that catchy choruses often sound best when they're snarled, not sung; that listeners love rappers who balance charm with menace.
In playing him, the skinny, hollow-eyed actor dexterously balances quirky charm with an instability that is both pathetic and ominous.
These golden years are what you should replicate – the Duke of Windsor, Pablo Picasso stylishly combining a dark cravat with Breton top, Rex Harrison and David Niven in silk cravats with just the appropriate balance of charm and seduction.
Effortlessly balancing feistiness and charm, vulnerability and goofiness, Billie Piper out-acted almost everyone else on television.
"Designers such as Anya Hindmarch, Emma Hill and Charlotte Olympia have a special way of balancing luxury and charm without compromising on quality, and Sophie fits with this approach".
There are three self-catering apartments which strike just the right balance between rustic charm (terracotta-tiled floors, wooden ceilings, woodburning stoves) and 21st-century luxuries (satellite TV, DVD player, Wi-Fi).
Baffert came to the Belmont Stakes twice before with the Triple Crown in the balance, but Silver Charm finished second in 1997 by three-quarters of a length and Real Quiet was beaten by a mere nose a year later.
After watching Mr. Lieberman work to strike the right balance of folksy charm and steadfast confidence with patrons whose main concern seemed to be a cup of hot coffee, viewers might have felt a pang of sympathy when the former Gephardt staff member declined the senator's appeal.
For me, it's a nice balance of frontier charm and modern lines.
Through all that time, it's an understatement to say the man has aged gracefully, balancing self-deprecating charm with philosophical charisma -- a career scene-thief whose varied rap sheet includes "Will & Grace," "Portlandia," "Captain Planet," and "Inside Amy Schumer".
