Richards, though he seems a charming and funny example of his generation, is, like the book he has written, far more serious than his manner implies.
To the outside world, the Japanese tea ceremony may seem a charming and perhaps puzzling custom evoking an almost mythically tranquil era of extreme politeness, esthetic refinement, subtle performance and spiritual meditation.
If you are that type of person, you can get away with a year-round no-tights-rule and it seems a charming eccentricity – but on most women, it reeks of pulling rank.
On the shuttle from the airport, Ms. Planck, who was scheduled to speak at the event, recalled thinking that Mr. Kaufelt, with what appeared to her as a broad, Cheshire cat smile and deep Florida tan, seemed a little too charming for her.
Somehow Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan seemed a lot more charming when the stock markets were going up.
At first, it seemed like a charming regionalism.
The current quarreling is an ugly chapter in what once seemed like a charming romance.
The institution was in disarray, and what there was of it seemed like a charming heterosexual contrivance that involved bridesmaids, fathers walking down the aisle, rehearsal dinners.
