Sentence examples for charming yet from inspiring English sources

Flagg is a larger than life figure, charming yet controlling.

The stars, meanwhile, must navigate the five-hundred-foot red carpet in their heavy gowns and towering heels, must speak smoothly and graciously about their fellow-actors, and must be charming yet aloof.

Against his changing colors -- charming, yet singlemindedly clinging to the doctrine of papal infallibility -- Randy Graff plays the inexhaustible mother of eight, who will stop at almost nothing to get her child back.

Gary Shteyngart (4,187 followers), whose first tweet was posted on Dec. 1, is charming yet enigmatic ("grandma always said to me, 'boytchik, do not start a meth lab.' but i guess i had to learn the hard way"), and often writes in the voice of his dog ("woof!").

Until then my pool (more like a mud puddle) had consisted solely of adventurous, charming, yet fatally flawed boy-men, one of whom had left me stranded at dusk with a flat tire while mountain biking down a ravine known to be frequented by mountain lions.

Yet Sangster came up with a new story – owing as little to Mary Shelley's novel as to James Whale's earlier film – and a radical depiction of Frankenstein as a determined, charming yet corrupt dandy who could still chill in an era of nuclear proliferation.

The time has come to reimagine the doddering goddad and the charming-yet-distracted godmom.

Her fellow passengers insist that Miss Froy never existed and that Iris is suffering delusions – but she teams up with fellow-Brit Gilbert Michael Redgravee), a charming-yet-vexacious musicologist, and the pair of them set about getting to the bottom of what's going on.

That's what Jennings is like in interview, too: charming, amusing, yet a touch evasive.

There are two completely different views of Michelle Obama: she's smart and charming, glamorous yet down-to-earth.

It is a typical Schlesch piece: charming, elegant, yet relaxed enough for a country house or city apartment.