It was always Casanova who won, relying on charm and guile, entreaties and threats or, in the last resort, brute force.
Mr. Daniell, who was born in Yonkers and now lives in Maine, relied on charm and easy intelligence, rather than on social connections, for entree to the lives of the glamorous.
(*Depending on what stats you choose to build for your character, you can get some way into Fallout 4 without being too violent, relying on charm, persuasion and luck, as this PC Gamer article outlines. But it'll only get you so far).
Like Neddy, America can no longer rely on its charm.
Some artists rely on the charm of embroidery to revive tired subjects, not always successfully.
More than most theatrical forms, musicals rely on sheer charm, on ingratiating themselves through crowd-courting performance.
More than half of UK employers say candidates rely on their charm instead of doing their research when they are interviewing for a job, according to a new survey.
While many old-school brokerages still rely on brokers' charms to seduce an ever-dwindling pools of clients into paying for the brokers' bloated salaries and overhead expenses, a number of well-established start-ups delivers cutting edge portfolio-management advice to investors right over the Internet, with some charging as little as $9.95 per month.
"Its author, Joseph Heller, is like a brilliant painter who decides to throw all the ideas in his sketchbooks onto one canvas, relying on their charm and shock to compensate for the lack of design," Mr. Stern wrote.
