Word: enchanting
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...critics refused to be pushed over. Wrote the Daily Express' John Barber: "My goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed destined to enchant...
...party swings past midnight. Slowly departing guests murmur to General Prawin: "Delighted . . . dziekuje . . . enchanté . . . ya voskhishchen priemom...
...culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself in cold cash, not to mention prestige, in its U.S. run. And for years to come, Henry V and Hamlet will refresh and enchant every moviegoer who has it in him to love great dramatic poetry, beautifully spoken and acted...
...Mediterranean in its richness. But in her own vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power to enchant, she has in great abundance an asset Garbo never had: earthy sexuality...
...Ursula's book Next Time We Live it was that simple. But the author's real-life current hero was also charged with helping run a reefer flat in Manhattan where marijuana cigarets were smoked by soldiers & sailors. This sort of thing might enchant the shade of Baudelaire, but it is vexing to narcotics squads...