A lot came from his charismatic stories: running fledgling punk nights, setting up a record shop on the most violent street in Belfast, breaking The Undertones by introducing John Peel to "Teenage Kicks", not taking money for it… "People love an anti-hero, and someone who isn't motivated by money, a guy who's always falling on his arse but keeps getting up," says Whittaker, blithely.
They paid $450,000 for a charismatic three-story house with 13 rooms and three and a half bathrooms on a three-quarter-acre corner lot.
In person, he is rather less charismatic than his story suggests.
It is a difficult question to answer, both because Aung San Suu Kyi is so charismatic and her story so morally unambiguous, and because of a sort of political correctness that has come to characterize support for her.
By Brandon Harris February 2 ,2016 From Penny Lane's "NUTS!" (pictured) to Bernardo Britto's "Jacqueline (Argentine)," this year's Sundance Film Festival was a showcase for stories about charismatic con men.
8 P.M. (ESPN) CHARISMATIC Steve Michaels tells the story of Charismatic, the thoroughbred who headed down the stretch at the Belmont Stakes in 1999, just seconds away from becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 21 years.
The rivetingly charismatic Kristin Anna Valtysdottir narrates the story, supplies most of the human voices for the characters on screen and, accompanying herself on guitar, sings like an angel.
"In five months, now the dominant Catholic story is 'Charismatic Pope Takes World by Storm.' " During his papal trips, John Paul II loved to walk to the back of the plane and chat with reporters, while Benedict only responded to a handful of preselected questions.
Illumio, the startup backed by a who's who of A-list venture capitalists and charismatic CEOs, tells a story about what we can expect to be a constant stream of companies with one thing in common: They are saving us from malware hell fire and the devil's phishing.
The story of charismatic, goofy Chip and his style-minded, shiplap-loving wife, Jo, wasn't just meant to be viewed in bulk on the weekends, the low-volume hum of equipment dulling your tired senses.
Díaz makes brilliant use of the character of Yunior's big brother, Rafa, who tantalizes in several of these stories as a charismatic, funny, often cruel, occasionally kind and ultimately heartbreaking figure.
