If another writer's work survives on charm, you will never be able to steal it, only imitate it in an embarrassingly obvious way.
At night, standing by the Golden Horn and watching long ships pass in and out from the heart of Asia and seeing the spires of the Hagia Sophia shine in the moonlight is to understand why this city's magical charms have worked on so many travelers over the centuries.
Still, even the "Fahrenheit" crowd seems to be working on its charm this year when winning seems to be trumping everything else.
Rather, they should work on their charm.
As the world's top sportsmen and women took a well-earned break following the Olympics two years ago, organisers of Glasgow 2014 started work on their charm offensive to woo them north.
Assembled from a patchwork of choreographic sources – Ivanov, Vainonen, Nureyev and Eagling himself – the work is long on charm if short on narrative logic.
Lucas Tooth, whose assault of Anjali starts her descent into the dossers' underworld, works his charm on the hopeful, the sad, the desperate.
Generally speaking, I'm not enthusiastic about homeopathy, but credit where it's due: this calendula-rich cream works a charm on severely dry lips, rough skin patches and that annoying post-cold flaky redness around the nose.
Mr. Lourd, who represented a bid organized by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and the investor Ron Burkle, worked phones, rattled cages, poured on charm when things got sticky and lobbied the Disney chief executive, Robert A. Iger — until talks fell apart, and Disney moved on to the next prospective buyer.
There, he'd work his charm on the ladies at one of the Spanish island's epic "closing parties," where DJs like Fatboy Slim and David Guetta bump beats for pools overflowing with people.
