A tourist faints, perhaps with heat, or fatigue, or some kind of aesthetic overload, and then Sorrentino pulls off a superb coup — a hard cut to a thoroughly outrageous and deafening Eurotrash party being thrown that evening for Jep Gambardella, an elegant, louche, sad-eyed bachelor, now 65 years old, played with a fascinating mask of charm by Toni Servillo.
To someone like me, who has always found children fascinating and been charmed by their company, this is an outrageous generalization.
Mr. Noseworthy himself is a fascinating blend of boyish charm and blindered techno-fanaticism.
Chinese calligraphy is a unique visual art, and is still emitting fascinating artistic brilliance and charm.
Wonderful, charming, fascinating stuff.
Steadman's name is for ever welded to Thompson's, a fate he both celebrates and rues in this fascinating book, full of sad charm, and not too full of Hunter - just full enough.
Best sight: Pitt Rivers Museum is an Aladdin's cave of explorers' booty spread over three floors, crammed with fascinating items like blowpipes, magic charms, voodoo dolls and shrunken heads from the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific.
While Autobiography was fascinating, at times beautiful, and with enough charm to balance out the bitterness, List of the Lost offers nothing but the astonishing feat, in a book so brief, of being boring.
Funny, caustic and with charm to spare, Dolan will be fascinating to watch in the next few years.
These letters cover the years from 1940 to 2010 and provide a fascinating and engaging sort of autobiography full of the charm found in his travel writings.
