Sentence examples for disarming line from inspiring English sources

But I soon received a charming letter from him, which opened with the disarming line "I can took it", a quote from the French actor Danielle Darrieux.

Tennant has a reputation for being polite and chatty with a disarming line in self-deprecation and an undergraduate's air (although, now 42, that might be pushing it).

I remind him that the opening track on Life Is Good includes the disarming line: "I'm pushing 40, don't applaud for me, I'm exhausted".

Indeed, Richardson, whose first solo UK exhibition opens this week, is a gawky 35-year-old with mutton-chop sideburns and tache, dishevelled dress, seedy specs and a disarming line in being direct - more errant artist than fashion type.

The 29-year-old from Auckland with boyish good looks and a disarming line in self-deprecation has come from nowhere to challenge the biggest names in the sport: despite being a full-time rider only since 2008, he won his first 'Big Five' extreme enduro event, the Roof of Africa, that year, a race he won again in 2009.

Farage's most disarming line came when he revealed that he made the comments last autumn – in an interview for a programme due to be broadcast on Channel 4 next Thursday – and had forgotten about them until they were "wilfully misinterpreted", presumably by the show's publicists who have now obtained front-page coverage in the Guardian and the Independent.

Sometimes disarming lines will float to the surface: "Daddy was a pastor / Mommy was a pastor / Son, son was a pagan," he sings on "Paigon," one of the only moments on the record that reveals biographical details. "Pagan" is less a collection of songs than a slow-moving accretion of sensation.

But she mixed hard talk with a disarming air of compassion.

The effect is doubly disarming: you laugh once at the line itself, again at the way it snuck up on you out of the onstage din.

Milch's disarming approach to inquiring biographers runs along the lines of there's-nothing-you-can-find-out-about-me-that's-worse-than-what-I'll-tell-you-myself.

Its plaintive theme, stated with a disarming gracefulness, gradually expands into the sort of soaring but firmly controlled line that animated Ms. Jansen's account of the Britten a few days earlier, supported here by tolling piano chords voiced with the light dissonances Messiaen used to evoke celestial grandeur.