charm

Though he’s always been a great actor, popping up here and there to elevate material, Hartnett has found an artistic sweet spot, using his effervescent charm and boy-next-door-all-grown-up good looks to subvert expectations.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Between Jordan’s charm and Misty’s smile that only emerges around him, the film flirts with becoming a romantic comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Twenty-one high-flying contestants are vying to win £100,000 for their charity of choice with all the charm, persuasion and manipulation they can muster.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Among the major problems is the lead performance of Mr. Pattinson, who gives us a greasy, erratic character bereft of the charm, smarm and rounded baritone that TV newsmen rely on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

‘I added more wormwood, and checked with Saeunn. The masking charm should work. The bear won’t sense the Nanuak.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The world's largest jewellery brand showed off bracelet charms featuring Vietnam's national flag and a bowl of pho noodle soup as it opened a manufacturing centre in the country on Thursday, its first outside Thailand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

One of the charms of baseball is a cliche: Anything can happen — in a single game or in a short series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The charms of those “Mystery!” chestnuts resided largely in heroes who were, if not rigid, then regularly, reliably eccentric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Obama sure has his charms, but he comes out of a different mold: the Harvard-educated lawyer who pictured himself in the Oval Office from an early age.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Well, we know our protective charms hold, then, don’t we? They shouldn’t be able to get within a hundred yards of the place in any direction.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Norway’s Erling Haaland, who charmed the world during this summer’s tournament, has more goals for club and country at 26 than either Messi or Ronaldo had at the same age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Plus, Campari imports a sweeter, pink-hued aperitif to woo the crowd that hasn’t been charmed by Aperol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

On television, she charmed everyone from Carol Burnett to The Muppets to the “Designing Women.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

He said he’d led a charmed life until his 40s, when a divorce unsettled his sense of having cruised along on luck, intelligence and hard work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

To finding out his charmed life is nearing its end.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

In person, though, he’s funny, laid back and really charming, with a self-deprecating, self-aware sense of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

One wouldn’t call him a charming personality, but he is compelling in his absolute confidence in himself and his ideas.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Crucially, city staffers preserved those charming and entirely unnecessary turrets, which deserve their own sonnet, if you ask me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Good looking and charming, he led the nation's cricket team with style and authority.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Nothing to you? When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë