Sentence examples for be charming about from inspiring English sources

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"I wonder if Gerald Clarke," whose biography of Truman Capote first appeared in 1988, "would have told about how Capote hired thugs to terrorize and physically intimidate his lovers if Capote were still around to lie and be charming about it".

In Rachel Donadio's interesting essay about the problems biographers encounter in writing about living people (Nov. 4), one biographer posed the following question: "I wonder if Gerald Clarke would have told about how Capote hired thugs to terrorize and physically intimidate his lovers if Capote were still around to lie and be charming about it".

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Everything that I thought was charming about us, he wanted us to lie about".

Natural World: Kangaroo Dundee (BBC2) was charming, about a man called Brolga who rescues baby kangaroos.

"For a guy who is so hard-bitten and cynical, there is something kind of naïve and clueless that's charming about that," Andersen told me.

They usually contain so much of what is charming about baseball: the mastery of a locked-in pitcher, superstitious teammates avoiding him in the dugout, dramatic defensive plays and nervous moments in the late innings, the emotional spillover when it is finally in the books.

No need to fret, though: James was charming, talking about how proud and surprised he and his teammates were to be in the White House.

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It's about escape from oppression, but it's charming and funny about it.

Mr. Livingston was charming and ebullient about almost everything — except politics.

Prince Charles was charming – he talked about design, and knew I'd been in Covent Garden for 40 years.

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