"This character is pretty explicitly vile although he has a charming public front.
Certainly, the memory of Cage's charming public persona has tended to obscure the intense discipline he brought to his creative work.
They portray Mr. White as the charming public face of Enron Energy Services, valuable for his ability to motivate workers but indifferent to the dollars-and-cents details that would determine the unit's success.
It is hard to disparage anything Mr. Gates does on television; he is easily our most charming public intellectual, displaying none of the blowhard, curmudgeon tendencies of his species.
8 P.M. (Showtime 2) FAMILY BAND: THE COWSILLS STORY (2011) The director Louise Palanker examines the Cowsills, the 1960s singing group from Newport, R.I., that inspired "The Partridge Family" sitcom, and the divergence between a charming public image and private lives.
One last five-hour drive takes you to Udaipur, the smallest but most attractive of Rajasthan's cities, with its lakes, its green Aravali hills surmounted by the Monsoon Palace, and its charming public gardens, especially the fountains and elephant statues of the Sahelion-ki-Bari.
