Sentence examples for charming without from inspiring English sources

In person Ms. Mortimer is funny and charming, without a hint of actorly pretense.

The Red Barn Cafe, in Ms. Penza's grandfather's old horse barn, is charming, without a trace of yuppiefication.

In these early works, of which mostly only fragments have survived, Gluck largely followed the existing Italian operatic fashion melodic but never grand, charming without intensity.

Manager Mike Procopakis, who spent years working in far-flung destinations including Zanzibar and Honduras, is the perfect host, charming without being smooth; and his staff are warm, chatty and helpful.

Clinton, he said, had to appear "confident but not smug, knowledgeable without being a know-it-all, charming without being affected, commanding but not shrill, also likable, authoritative, warm and not coughing.

Like an iceberg, the bulk of a marriage is hidden from view, but the top bit, the bit that you take out to parties and show off, should appear exemplary to outsiders: charming without being cloying; happy without being giddy; entertainingly spiky, but also mutually respectful.

Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.

Both are charming but without whimsy.

Although quietly charming and without any symptoms of Bohemia, Updike was ruthlessly forensic with his characters.

In this ambience of well-being, he began a liaison with his niece Mme Denis, a charming widow, without breaking off his relationship with Mme du Châtelet.

While India's then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi described Zardari to me in 1989 as "charming and without hang ups about India, Singaporee's elder statesman, Lee Kuan Yew, characterized him as a "likeable rogue," who dwelt at length on his expertise in "real estate and export deals".