Robyn disappoints her charming, flirting, cajoling mother, resolutely refuses to charm her in return.
Of his first meeting with Doris Lessing, he writes: "She made no attempt to be charming, and I wouldn't have been foolish enough to try to charm her," he writes.
Keisha meant to charm her way through the front door.
She doesn't understand her own gifts, her charm, her decency.
Her coltish enthusiasm doesn't charm her assigned trainer, who greets Traci with the words: "Great.
Her warmth, her charm, her intelligence, her thoughtfulness and above all her humanity touched all those who knew her.
"I'm not here to talk about politics," she said, turning on the charm her fans have come to love.
So it was great to listen to Whitehorn charm her audience at Hay today.
Humphrys tells the Radio Times he once tried to charm her on to the Today programme.
At the beginning, I tried to charm her with stories of my lacrosse exploits at Penn, hoping she would let up a bit.
The story, here, is didactic: a woman's duty is submission, her education resignation, her labor housewifery, her weakness her charm, her decline a spectacle.
