In addition to traditional American iconography — eagles, stars, and stripes — Fink makes charming use of brightly colored songbirds.
With horizontal space at a minimum in the dining room, the tall vertical proportions are put to charming use with high shelves of odd pictures, old signs and a suggestion box out of reach.
Somehow, despite the ad's genuine tone and charming use of exclamation points, a number of people have reservations about this low-tech tactic, including the rapper Ludacris, who reposted the flier on Instagram.
Some students had been ragged but charming; some used elaborate metaphors, a trait shared by scientists and rappers, Mr. Emdin said.
In private, he had a fierce temper, but he could be immensely charming, and used that on City contacts as well as the senior financial journalists who could influence City opinion.
Mr. Schmidhofer's cooking, which I would define as nouvelle Austrian, is all about finesse, mastery and good sense, starting with "welcomes" -- the charming term used instead of amuse-bouche or amuse-gueule -- of a taste of foamy cream of asparagus soup and a bite of smoked salmon over a mousse of white asparagus.
The breathlessness can be charming (she uses "Gotham" for New York without any archness), and it's certainly preferable to her more contemporary blends of sex and sociology: one female character is described as a "definitely heterosexual woman at peace with her own estrogen," and Valentino himself, we are told, "helped deflower postwar America".
It's not bad enough that Windows 8 is as charming to use as a second-hand toothbrush and your all-in-one printer is giving you the orders.
Fall and winter weddings can be made instantly charming by using the season to your advantage.
