According to the Guardian's review, Homes "captures the enchantment of generosity – that sense of adventure you get when you step out of your own circle of need into someone else's, and the weird feeling of invulnerability it gives you.
As a native Floridian, I am unabashed in my enchantment with frozen precipitation.
It is important to preserve that enchantment for as long as possible.
By tradition, if anyone can count the stones twice and arrive at the same number, the enchantment will be broken.
The Van Dyck Shirleys capture the enchantment with exoticism that seems almost as emblematic of upper-class English life as the portraits of lords and dogs on view.
Ostensibly, he has written a historical novel about the British in colonial Burma in the 1880s; but it's all flummery beside his infectious enchantment with these things.Not that there's any lack of history.
As Cuthbert Collingwood, his second-in-command, wrote soon after Trafalgar: "He possessed the zeal of an enthusiast, and everything seemed, as if by enchantment, to prosper under his direction.
Years of shared experience, he says, have transformed this apparently desolate wasteland into a small island of enchantment in an ocean of suburban dreariness.
Turn all cell phones off .In this section Jelly on a roll Notable bilge Empress of the avant-garde The uses of enchantment Unforgiving land French letters Reprints Related items French anti-Americanism: Spot the differenceDec 20th 2005"American Vertigo" is worth reading for these delicious details; it is doubly worth reading if it sends you back to de Tocqueville's original masterwork.
But it did reflect a deeper truth about the way Europe is seen in the United States as outdated, under-invested and burdened by a lingering enchantment with notions of social justice.Europe's industrial base certainly needs updating.
A CITY of enchantment, Venice is also besieged with problems.
