Wisden described him as a "cricketer of remarkable powers" who batted with "a charming skill, coolness, thoughtfulness and certainty".
Even though wild camping in London is technically illegal without permission, we weren't ready to test our stranger-charming skills yet.
Carlsen sits at the center of a campaign carefully constructed by him and his handlers to use his intelligence, looks and nimble news-media-charming skills to increase his profile outside the sport, as if he were a tennis or golf star.
And for now at least, he does preside, his comforting charisma, his ally-charming skills and his experience of war all placed at a premium by the terror attacks of Sept. 11.
But I would say a lot of conmen are using a type of hypnotism as well as their charming persuasion skills.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
He tries to be erudite and charming, but his social skills are so underdeveloped that his verbosity is entirely counterproductive, and the girl walks out on him.
Bisengaliev accepted Suntook's offer and, over the next few years, the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra made three trips to India, impressing Mumbai audiences with their musical skills and charming them when they appeared at one concert in Indian costumes.
And he has the experience to practice the almost forgotten presidential skill of charming the opposition.
Even Franco accused Mussolini of wanting to prove that Italians could "horrify the world with their aggressiveness rather than charming it by their skill at playing the guitar".
They bring an unchannelled curiosity, a curated range of skills, and a charming doubt of all identities, including their own, which they keep in quotation marks — and, as such, they are at the prow of progress.
