Kruger's detective lacks the humour that was so charming and essential to Saga's appeal, and also her physical presence: she awkwardly stomps around in her leather trousers, boots and heavy coat with a body she is entirely relaxed with.
"What I find so engaging is their wit and whimsy, a gentle irreverence that is so charming they can get strangers on the street to follow them or convince regular audience members to take their place onstage," he said.
The snap, crackle and pop that is so charming in the two-seat Jaguar F-type becomes intrusive in an otherwise elegant, all-purpose SUV whose owners might prefer more discretion.
The brashness that was so charming in the films indicates a state of arrested development.
"They came out as a team instead of being introduced as individuals at the beginning of the game -- that was so charming," said the Rev. Martha Swanson, pastor of Union Congregational Church in Quincy, where a Super Bowl-inspired sermon began the day and a Super Bowl party ended it.
He's so charming that his charm is itself a running joke.
The production received a positive review in by Bob Anthony in AllArtsReview4U, who wrote "This is so charming that it rates a "must see" status.
Granita: It's so charming that he uses paper plates.
And he's so charming that I fell a bit in love with him.
When I tell him this, he says: "I will take her answer!" He's so charming that it's easy to ask him anything, but he just laughs when I press him.
And it's so charming that I think, Why don't people know about it?" Bringing across an artiste like Printemps is a little different from doing a recital of Jenny Lind's music, or Jane Bathori's, to name performers who in recent seasons received homages from Barbara Bonney and Dawn Upshaw.
