Sentence examples for rather than charming from inspiring English sources

Even Franco accused Mussolini of wanting to prove that Italians could "horrify the world with their aggressiveness rather than charming it by their skill at playing the guitar".

He disdains Angier's crowd-pleasing antics in favor of a more stripped-down presentation, challenging his audience rather than charming or seducing it.

Mr. Obuchi comes across a bit like the Russian Prime Minister, Yevgeny M. Primakov, for both rose in one-party systems in which the key to success was impressing superiors rather than charming television audiences.

Though her prodigious cleverness and engagement had dazzled when she was young, in celebrated middle-age she was formidable rather than charming - even her loyal Aunt Mai described her as 'often cold and dry, some might say cross'.

There is nothing wrong with taking a whimsical or melodramatic view of history, but both the film's humor and its pathos are glib and predictable, making the experience grating rather than charming.

There's a bit too much of this towards the end of the story, which is clogged by a dull account of her legal fight to stop the public accessing a road running through her ranch; this is where her earnestness becomes tedious rather than charming.

Upon their arrival, however, Dr. Sanderson (Charles Drake) determines that the apoplectic Veta, rather than her charming mild-mannered brother, is the one in need of help and has her forcibly committed.

If we worry so much about keeping these cultures alive, perhaps a good place to start would be to acknowledge them as the lifestyles that they are, rather than the charming traditions we make them out to be.

For all the doubts about their presidential candidate's ability to connect and for all the audible sighs in the Fleet Centre on Wednesday night, the Democrats are lucky that they have the dour Mr Kerry, rather than the charming Mr Edwards, at the top of the ticket.

Apple made it large and brooding rather than thin and charming and it seems like the materials limited their design choices.

Rachel : Came off as a crass attempt to get a laugh, rather than his usual charming incidental laugh lines that wrap into his point so deftly.