Sentence examples for calculated to charm from inspiring English sources
It is also, correctly, calculated to charm.
"Let's sit and talk in the library," he suggests, his raspy, conspiratorial whisper calculated to charm.
The title, only slightly more embossed than embarrassing, is surrounded on the cover by lush flora and furry fauna that give it a look calculated to charm dear grandmas and elderly aunts.
When Magee transports another couple to Inverela, the narrator goes along and reports Magee's speech, calculated to charm the visitors with old-world eloquence and get 10 pounds for his services.
It's a delightful show calculated to charm the kiddies while making the grown-ups snicker.
He is a man of much personal charm and impressive personality, which qualifications make him a dangerous man calculated to mislead the unthinking and affording excuse for those with criminal intent".
This feels calculated to me.
By the time he turned 5, Michael had developed an uncanny ability to switch from full-blown anger to moments of pure rationality or calculated charm — a facility that Anne describes as deeply unsettling.
For Mr. Crowe, whose public image took a hit last year when he threw a telephone at a desk clerk in a New York hotel and later pleaded guilty to assault, "A Good Year" looks like a calculated charm offensive by an actor not known for his courtly manners.
The effusive performance brought snickers from some veteran diplomatic practitioners, who wondered whether Mr. Bush, relatively unschooled in world affairs, had fallen for a calculated charm offensive by a man who loyally served the K.G.B. before entering Russian politics.
