Sentence examples for pernicious charm from inspiring English sources

The 1908 classic now reads as at once dated and fresh: "People told them what to see, when to see it, how to stop the electric trams, how to get rid of the beggars, how much to give for a vellum blotter…" Lucy surrenders to "the pernicious charm of Italy" and begins to be happy.

"Pernicious quicksand!

But pernicious?

But alongside that genetic understanding, an old and pernicious assumption has crept back into the American conversation, in which aptitudes are supposedly inherited by race: certain peoples are thought to have rhythm, or intellect, or speed or charm.

You have pernicious anemia.

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

The symptoms are pernicious.

Reprehensible! Foul! Pernicious! Unsubstantiated!

This is pernicious nonsense.