charm

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

"To me, the new cinemas have lost the charm," said Chaturvedi, a former Bollywood cinematographer who worked on hit movies during a three-decade career.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Instead, we get Mr. T’s rags-to-riches story, his charm and his self-awareness of his own limitations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

As part of a charm offensive, he presented the president with a mocked-up newspaper front page with the headline said, “Trump to City: Let’s Build.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

I’d seen the tassel before—Eddie had used it to mark his spot, or to flick me in the back of the head—but the charm was new.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

"But they've applied her prodigious charms too thinly, and even she – with her preference for all things 'sumptuous' – can't stop the feeling that the show has gone more than a little stale."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

“The smallest charms can be the most effective,” Isobel says, taken aback when her voice catches, almost on the brink of tears.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

She correctly deduces that he knows nothing of personal tragedy, though she is clearly charmed by him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The movie “9 to 5” from 1980 settled her broadening stardom; acting alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in a comedy about three office workers who get even with an abusive boss, Parton charmed viewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

I’m charmed by LeBron James’s nascent golf career: How someone at the top of one athletic profession has decided to start at the grim bottom of another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

He broke into the charmed, thoughtless grin of a man fulfilled.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

It said Luke was a "charming, approachable and genuinely lovely lad", whose "kindness, enthusiasm and character" touched all at the sixth form.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Steffi Cao argues that we should be wary of the algorithm that incentivizes mindless scrolling, but there is nonetheless something charming about the wacky human storytelling that drives these videos.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Benedict Cumberbatch is a wryly charming presenter for this climate crisis documentary that focuses on the positive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

They now speak with charming accents, listen to Midnight Oil B-sides, refer to great white sharks as “white pointers,” and are still trying to decide if they’ll wear helmets in the opener.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Then I make a fire; and near it I make Madam Mina, now awake and more charming than ever, sit comfortable amid her rugs.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker