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charismatic

[kar-iz-mat-ik] / ˌkær ɪzˈmæt ɪk /


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He sure was a charismatic quote machine, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Alan's mother Hayley described her son as "very charismatic" with energy levels that were "off the Richter scale".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rarely, if ever, has international soccer been blessed with a deeper, more talented and charismatic group of young stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

We have a tendency to reduce a movement down to a single individual — in particular a male, charismatic figure who has a national spotlight on him.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2019

Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists, people like the Apostle Paul or Billy Graham or Brigham Young.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

For the congregations in that category, including Baptists and charismatics, that means plumbing, heating equipment, maintenance costs and potentially hundreds of gallons of water for each event.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021

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

Chatty charismatics, as bright and blunt as they are self-obsessed, the Pfeffermans are like amnesiac spiders—drawing interesting and substantial people into their web and then leaving them stuck in Pfefferman gossamer, abandoned for shinier prey.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2015


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