charismatic

With Carlos missing since April, tennis wearily bounces on, a little less fun, deprived of its most charismatic, exciting-to-watch character.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

With residents already scratching and swatting, it took only a couple of charismatic entomologists to win over the right politicians to move legislation forward.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Julius Caesar, the republic’s most politically astute and charismatic figure, cultivated personal power by shattering Roman safeguards and traditions that had been in place for centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

He arranged the private screening to symbolically request Robert De Niro’s blessing to play the dangerously charismatic Max Cady, an ex-con parched for revenge against those who had a hand in his imprisonment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Rajesh had once been the most promising of the brothers—the nimblest, the supplest, the most charismatic, the most energetic, the most beloved and idolized by my father and his family.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

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