Still, Mr. Drexler failed to charm everyone, and there appear to have been fissures in his relationship with Gap's founder, Donald Fisher, throughout his tenure.
I imagined the young Charles, who had entirely failed to charm the disdainful princess, given a better face by Velázquez, his dignity restored to the point of grace.
Tom Riley's merry outlaw failed to charm and appeared to be smothered in so much foundation that he looked a tad orange at times and more suited to Strictly than Sherwood.
His tearful reaction to losing to Nadal in the Australian Open in February failed to charm (me, at least); the whole "chasing history" bit was starting to slide into gruesome psychodrama.
Third, WFAN decided to replace its afternoon host, Pete Franklin, a curmudgeon from Cleveland who had failed to charm New York with his habit of referring to callers as scumbags and schmucks.
Let me be the first to welcome you, says Stephen Fry, to Martians newly arrived at Heathrow in a film that has, unusually for him, failed to charm the natives.
One of the few whom Rockefeller failed to charm was the union leader John Lawson, who caricatured the philanthropist as offering "health for China, a refuge for birds, food for the Belgians, pensions for New York widows, university training for the elect, and never a thought of a dollar for the thousands of men, women, and children who starved in Colorado".
Despite its spunk and cleverness, the application failed to charm its recipients (how heartless you were, New Yorker editors of old!), and so it is gratifying to read the first line of the next letter included in Oxford American, sent from Maxwell to Welty in 1956: Dear Eudora, I know you didn't think you had some money coming to you from The New Yorker but you have, you did, and here it is.
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But like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry before him, the prickly Kasich failed to charm GOP primary voters who favored more anti-establishment, outsider candidates like Ben Carson and Trump.
