Within the constraints of big-eyed, wasp-waisted princesses and the need for old-fashioned charm, Frozen is progressive in a surprising number of ways.
Interestingly, the Italians have no word for "charm" and need to resort to the French to express the idea.
"As the ball leaves a clear imprint on the clay, there isn't any need for Hawk-Eye and the charm of bringing the chair umpire all the way down from his perch is also, happily for us, retained," writes Suhrith Parthasarathy, whose explanation stacks up, but fails to account for those occasions when players and umpires disagree over which ball-mark is the one they're looking for.
Their efforts attracted the attention of local and federal officials who saw the charm and the need for light-rail service that would link isolated Red Hook to the rest of the borough.
Faced with figures like that, one starts to understand the charm offensive and the need for comedy kangaroos.
Dowdy in her pale print dress and white shoes, she's overwhelmed by F.D.R.'s charm and by his need for companionship and sex.
Her intense personal charm, evident despite the need for a translator, seemed to win over the workshop skeptics as effortlessly as her low, soulful singing inspired them.
Did the occasion call for charm, for sarcasm, for paranoia?
So for me, the big breakthrough moment for me, was when I said to myself, 'The reader is a person who you need to charm.
We don't need less charm, we need more.
