Of the longer poems, one translated from the French, the allegory Reason and Sensuality (c. 1408) on the theme of chastity, contains fresh and charming descriptions of nature, in well-handled couplets.
And yet Murakami's relatively advanced age (he was not 18, as Sagan had been, or 23, like Fitzgerald, or even 28, like Camus) enabled him to situate his rather fragile story in a more robust frame; for all its concentration on the hopes and uncertainties of adolescence, and its charming descriptions of early sexual fumblings, there is nothing callow about Norwegian Wood.
Gary W. Parr, the orchestra's chairman, gave a charming historical description of the first Philharmonic concert in 1842 at the Apollo Rooms on Broadway off Canal Street, at a time when development in Manhattan extended "way up to 14th Street".
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
But Huntsville aptly called the death-penalty capital of the world is more charming than that description makes it out to be.
Her work is characterized by great delicacy and refinement of feeling, and comprises dainty love songs, verses of deep religious feeling, stately odes, written for special occasions, and charming bits of description".
Then silence, and there begins a charming hour of description, analysis, anecdote, harmless pun, which clothes the dry bones with poetic imagery, enlivens a hard and fatiguing day with humor, and brightens to the tired listener the details for difficult though interesting study".
It's an appealingly understated teen-age love story, and Jacob's offbeat descriptions are charming.
