charismatic

Not since Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief” has there been a more charismatic and lovable “villain,” not to mention some pretty great heists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Ann Widdecombe was pugnacious, charismatic, barbed and yes, had a sense of silliness too.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Venice festival director Alberto Barbera called Clooney "a complete and charismatic artist, impassioned and original".

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

The latter is the hangover from a peripatetic childhood defined and dominated by his charismatic father, a once-idealistic scholar whose dreams of a Arab utopia soured into authoritarian megalomania.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

They’ll want me to be fearless and charismatic, like Mother.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

These charismatics have been around so long that the things people used to find grating about them are now charming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

And I was, in a strange way, almost happy for the charismatics around me: They were being offered the promise of purpose in their lives, a pitch to be part of something big and exciting.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024

A year after he was elected, Francis once knelt and was blessed by a gathering of thousands of Catholic charismatics, all speaking in tongues.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2020

In “Revelator,” emblems of American loss and catastrophe—Elvis’s death and John Henry’s, Lincoln’s assassination, the sinking of the Titanic, the Okies’ flight from the Dust Bowl—are braided with close observation of contemporary derelicts and charismatics.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2016

The pope has attended gatherings of Catholic charismatics, and last month he urged churches to open their doors to the movement.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015