But the best are the two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and particularly the effervescent, impossibly charming Paul McCartney.
Here, they run up to you speaking perfect English, each more impossibly charming and clever and funny and take-home-able than the last.
The video in which she is invited to play her song for Williams — which itself became a minor viral phenomenon — is impossibly charming.
This track works because of the Afroganic remix which adds the roots-reggae backing track Legend didn't know the song needed, and Andre 3000, hip-hop's absent master, still impossibly charming and toting vowels crisp as a pastor's collar.
I can get lost there, for a little while, in Feist's new album, "Pleasure," which contains the impossibly charming mid-aughts Britpop sing-along "Any Party," and a song called "Century" that features a perfectly written riff.
For a leisurely and satisfying meal, get a table on the deck of the Cottage (77 Mirror Lake Drive; 518-523-2544), an impossibly charming bar and restaurant overlooking Mirror Lake, a small lake bordering the larger Lake Placid.
Ms. Malcolm described the protagonist of the first series, the fictional Francis Crawford of Lymond, a 16th-century Scot, as the perfect romantic hero, "impossibly charming, elegant and accomplished; a brilliant swordsman; an inspired leader of men" who was "also highhanded, cynical and dangerous" and not above employing a bit of violence when it suits his often veiled purposes.
Off property, the nearby village of Chagford is an impossibly charming 14th-century town with whitewashed and thatch-roofed stone buildings housing traditional shops such as James Bowden & Son, purveyor of outdoor gear; various art galleries; the pubs Three Crowns and Ring of Bells; and tea rooms like Whiddons and the Old Forge for a cholesterol-laden afternoon-enlivening Devon cream tea.
As I continued to make the rounds, I met Geri Reischl, the impossibly charming actress who played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch Hour.
