Seducing and imploring his way through these sumptuous ballads, Mr. Foxx radiates competence, but not much presence.
"Elvin's Empire," a slow-simmering original dedicated to Coltrane's drummer Elvin Jones, relied on the drumming of Dave Ratajczak, who radiated competence without charisma.
He radiated competence as Lindsay did charisma and, mirabile dictu, the city in his time was competently run, which, given the odds, had the look of a miracle.
The lean, silver-haired Mr Stoiber radiates competence, authority, control.Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats' leader, appears in contrast to be almost a country bumpkin, woefully lacking the qualities needed to govern the country in troubled times.
Sitting behind the desk in his pleasant corner office in a blue sweatshirt, with a pile of manuscripts to bundle into his bicycle panniers to take back to the north-west London home he shares with his wife, writer Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Franklin radiates competence rather than glamour.
A sturdy woman radiating competence, she was officiating at the Grange, a ramshackle building on Highway 1 that serves as a community center in ordinary times and had become an evacuation dormitory, and then a supply depot, in the wake of the deadly fires raging through the region.
First there's the man himself, square-jawed, yes, but not terribly handsome, with those protruding ears and that receding hairline, still radiating competence nonetheless and more than that, a Middle American super-dad decency that almost belies his four-star status.
It involves regaining your sense of self so that you can effortlessly radiate confidence, competence, contentment and charisma.
"If there was a silver bullet answer to that question, I'd give it to you," said Campbell, a striking woman who radiated poise and competence.
