Word: charming
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...runs on the platform that he will put "a class act back into the White House," and in public settings the ex-Governor looks like he believes he will do just that. He speaks loudly and radiates force, but there is still a certain charm. The often scowling, sometimes fearsome product of the Texas oilman tradition declares that he always says what he thinks. "Anybody who thinks oil refineries are a greater threat than Communism must have something wrong with him," says Connally, and his conservative businessmen-backers smile...
Farley Mowat is a small, bearded Canadian who writes with a certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...
Neighborhood spokesman Dean Johnson, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, told the licensing board that the bar attracts "a young and rowdy clientele" not in keeping with the "particular character and charm of Harvard Square...
Rarely have two actors, Edward Fox and Cynthia Harris, looked so right and yet been so wrong for their parts. King Edward's charm was famous; Fox seems to think that that elusive quality can be conveyed by flashing his teeth, which he does with alarming regularity. Simpson was enormously attractive to many men; as Harris portrays her, even a dullard like this Edward would have had enough sense to pack her off to the Tower - or head for the door at first sight...
Despite its predictability, this relationship has a certain charm, thanks largely to the acting of the principals...