She was an excellent ballad singer, conveying a winsome, ingenuous quality.
Personally, it makes my flesh creep, with its winsome, confected quality, and with its paranoid insistence on conjuring a bygone world that never existed, which illusion is painfully punctured by the appearance of modern steel frames in the half-built buildings.
He is an attractive but not winsome character whose bemusement, resentment and perseverance are evident.
As Pierrot, his winsome character carried over into later French pantomimes.
Nancy Carroll, gesturing gently, gives Mildmay a dulcet quality without being winsome.
Flaunting classically English pop qualities -- wry lyrics, winsome melodies, exaggerated cockney-inflected vocals -- the trend was a defiantly Anglocentric rebuke to the grunts and macho poses of the American grunge bands that were dominating guitar pop: the chiming, cheery sound of the empire striking back.
The view made its mark in Friday's easygoing, winsome concert, but in Berio, Fauré, Wheeler and especially Ives, the quality and thoughtfulness of Mr. Berman's playing mattered much more.
Dessay was irresistible as Marie, the title character, usually played as a winsome maiden.
Perhaps Ms. Batuman's best quality as a writer, though beyond her calm, lapidary prose is the winsome and infectious delight she feels in the presence of literary genius and beauty.
