Sentence examples for surface charm from inspiring English sources

Despite their surface charm, they were servile, hypocritical and repressive.

Despite the lack of surface charm, Brennan was very Irish indeed.

But for all of his surface charm, Roger remains a monster of cynicism and self-involvement.

This excellent actress always goes straight for the emotional core of a part, refusing to coast on surface charm or shtick.

Surface charm runs high in Marsha Norman's "Last Dance," a play that suggests that if loveliness is not next to godliness, it is at least kind of divine.

Much of the rest of the film follows Isa, who, over the course of the ensuing fall and winter, emerges as a man of great surface charm.

While "Hotel Cassiopeia" suffers from a similar hollowness, it has glittering surface charms.

But behind the ample surface charms here, it's always clear that these women are striving for a quiet dignity.

"His songs are like Trojan horses, using their surface charms to get past your emotional defenses, then delivering their subtle, nuanced messages on repeated listens," Mr. Greenstein added.

When mysteries are set in British villages, as in the "Midsomer Murders" series, surface charms mask a subversive reality: Evil lurks everywhere, even here.

Just 14, an Indiana schoolgirl named Ginny marries her mother's second cousin Linus Lancaster, a Kentucky pig farmer whose surface charms conceal a monster of Simon Legree proportions.