Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
The charming romantic comedy "Five-Year Engagement" has started screening around the country -- producer Judd Apatow was retweeting fan responses on Tuesday night -- and while it shares the same creative team behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," the film isn't an exact replica.
In 1514, however, political considerations caused King Henry VIII to renounce this engagement and arrange a match between his beautiful, charming sister, Mary, and Louis XII, a broken man of 52.
It is about how design impacts on your daily engagement with the world... they are really charming, I like them a lot".
Gekoski isn't afraid to offer some controversial opinions, and a couple of politically focused late chapters on Iraq and Benin add a welcome sense of outreach and engagement to what might otherwise have been a charming but slight meditation on posterity.
As always with Connolly's travel programmes, he is a charming companion, but you long for a bit more rigour, a bit more effort, a bit more engagement of that scabrous comic sensibility we all know, admire and love.
The effect is both charming and disconcerting, with a hovering sense of the imminent loss of innocence underlining the cheerful engagements onstage.
Though her prodigious cleverness and engagement had dazzled when she was young, in celebrated middle-age she was formidable rather than charming - even her loyal Aunt Mai described her as 'often cold and dry, some might say cross'.
Prior to such engagements, his office sends a ten-thousand-word document to prepare his hosts for his arrival, which makes for oddly charming reading.
Just be charming, charming, charming.
