Mr. McCord uses her inability to speak more than rudimentary English, and her resulting cluelessness, to comic effect, but he doesn't make them charming — we feel some of the same irritation as the characters in the film who are trying to communicate with her.
I find Debord's rants adolescent — but their adolescence is what makes them enduringly charming, like a primordial form of intellectual punk: impossible and wrongheaded, expressive of real and vital energies, and also terribly self-destructive.
"Generally what makes them so charming is the fact that they're not spending a lot of time worrying about TV cameras or politics," Mr. Obama said on ABC's "Good Morning America," "and we want to keep it that way" "I don't think it's healthy," he added, "and it's something that we'll be avoiding in the future".
If they remember the social rules it makes them a bit more charming," Professor Treasure says.
The characters' bumbling attempts to save themselves and others make them both charming and infuriating, while Erickson's skillful use of metafictional techniques, coincidences, and resonances expands the story into an absorbing meditation on narrative itself.
Always known for his material about marriage and family, he veers into territory that, from a lesser comic, could feel hopelessly regressive – wives are always nagging, men are hopeless – but he manages to make them feel charming and sometimes even fresh.
You can say very rude things and make them sound charming".
"We had a couple of really strong candidates for this data analyst spot," he recalled, "but after they took the personality profile test we found their personality made them 'inspirational and charming,' someone you would like as a person.
The heroine learns Italian, wanders the narrow streets, and makes many friends, all of them charming, who talk with her, eat with her, and make no demands whatsoever.
