A shy young man, Arnold's magnetic personality and charisma began to emerge in his late 20's.
For Bell, the story of modern political charisma begins with Pasquale Paoli, who ruled Corsica in the middle of the 18th century and was chronicled by an enamored James Boswell.
But within 20 years of the movement, again this routinization of charisma begins to set in, and women are sidelined in a number of denominations, even among African American denominations.
The end result is that the men and women who circulate through the biker gang's clubhouse have, despite their personal charisma, begun to feel like decorations on a rickety pile of plot-choked stuff.
"Charisma" was begun several decades ago and finished — although not, it must be said, polished — shortly before the author's death.
These weren't emotions I would have predicted, given who he was, and the impact he had had on my life, but, this was late in the 1970s, and by then his audience had dwindled and his charisma had begun to fade.
I was attracted to Raymond's intelligence and charisma, and we began hanging out.
During the rigors of a long football season, particularly one that is beginning with injuries, Fewell's charisma will probably be useful.
As the story unfolds in a collage of emails, letters and diary entries that propel the tale from Whitehall to the highlands of Scotland to those of Yemen, the charisma of the sheikh begins to work an irresistible spell.
Character becomes more important to her than charisma, and, as she begins to see through her heart's eyes, her ability to compromise and forgive others' foibles and her own grows endearingly.
