First, the festival chair Colm Tóibín told a charming anecdote which compared the city to the act of writing, and the festival to a "pedestrian crossing" that allowed for "city strollers to access the next page".
Just about any President would be considered downright charming, and virtuous, if compared with Andrew Jackson, a dictatorial, nasty, temperamental man who always seemed to find himself facing down an opponent in a duel with a pistol.
One thing I never thought I'd say in my lifetime: a Mercedes, specifically the E63 AMG, whose outlaw attitude would seem well matched to a young billionaire soccer club owner, is a charming, fried-rubber yahoo compared with these BMWs.
Being charming--but only superfically.
Her persona is charming and playful, but modest compared with the flamboyant turns of some of her predecessors — notably Carol Channing, who logged more than 5,000 performances in the 1964 Broadway original and numerous tours and revivals thereafter, and Barbra Streisand, who played Dolly in the 1969 movie.
Compared with the legions of less charming birds, penguins occupy an outsize place in the public imagination.
Link compared the program to modern-day haiku generators (charming enough) and commercial virtual agents (maddeningly useless).
It's a light and charming book, and hobbits are refreshingly sane, middle-class creatures, especially compared with the powermongers and extremists they fall in among.
In an interview in the press pack for the production, Lyndhurst described Freddie Robdal as "a villain – charming, but nasty", and comparing him to Rodney, said that: "They're from two entirely different suitcases as far as I'm concerned.
Although small in size compared to Carlisle Bay, the Villas at Sunset Lane is a warm and charming hotel and the customer service and meals are definitely five star.
