Oppenheimer never misses an opportunity to remark on the first lady's lack of conventional female charms and devotes two pages to a Life magazine photo spread on the young Arkansas governor and his wife that never appeared, apparently because Hillary was deemed insufficiently photogenic.
But Losey's strongest critique of the times emerges in his wide-screen, black-and-white images, which convey the superficial charms of conventional society, the reproachful serenity of the sea and the sky, and the despairing humanism of modernistic sculpture — and do so with a unique stylistic flourish.
I don't buy organic, think the anti-GMO movement is basically BS, and eat a bowl of Lucky Charms with conventional whole milk every night of the week.
Meanwhile, none of the qualities one would normally associate with conventional portraiture — beauty, insight or charm — is present, and most of the figures are stiff and lifeless, like animals in car headlights.
While Segel is not the conventional Hollywood hunk, he's charmed many ladies with his hilarious roles in movies like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Knocked Up" and "I Love You, Man," and his endearing obsession with Muppets.
No such longing intrudes during "Prince Charming," a far more conventional fairy tale.
There's a backwoods stateliness to every song, conventional or abstract, contrasted with Vernon's easy charm as he jokingly tells the rapt, adoring crowd to "simmer down" between songs.
While many of the new restaurants and bars in the area are modern and conventional, the Frying Pan complex retains its waterfront charm, and is able to operate in the park because of the historic value of its vessels.
The conventional wisdom that Southern girls come packed with charm rings true for Memphis-born actress, Ginnifer Goodwin.
