Unlike his French and German contemporaries, his designs, indebted to the simplest Chippendale, Biedermeier, and Far Eastern styles and, particularly, to the furniture of the American Shakers, had an honest, sophisticated charm and warmth achieved through craftsmanship (a stark contrast to strictly machine-made products) without drawing attention to an obvious handmade look.
If their set sucked, which it didn't, they would've made up for it with their honest, quirky charm and humor.
"Romain Rolland, to be honest, was personally charmed by you," Mr. Arossev wrote in a letter to Stalin dated June 29 , 1935
Yet such was Gallimard's charm and honest pragmatism, that he could mollify even Claudel.
But beyond his books -- all masterworks of the imagination -- the literary legend will also remain in the hearts of many thanks to his honest wit and curmudgeonly charm.
And, to be honest, I'm very charmed by the image of freshman Deborah Treisman rushing out of her graduate seminar on alterity to make it in time for gamelan drumming.
With buckets of charm, the Sun, an honest inner-city stalwart, is well-loved by its local community.
Nor does it have crazy, insane-in-the-membrane email settings (I love the daily digest email), and the site is all fugly, to be honest, but perhaps that's its charm.
He stands in everybody else's way, but he stands in his own way too: difficult, determined, remorseless, honourable, honest, and proud of his lack of charm.
