Sporadically, a sharp cackle emanated from Al Franken, who wandered the chamber, looking for Republicans he could charm into laughing.
MPs were invited to tea with Mr Museveni, who tried to charm them into line.
Somehow she has managed to charm her way into an impressive roster of companies to entice them into buying it.
Pop off the antenna, collapse it, and screw it into the attached charm -- "geeky" doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Wilder then goes on to charm him and ultimately turn the monster into a refined gentleman.
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He may have proven his ability to charm, cajole and bully fellow Europeans into a show of unity.
It was amazing how Alex Turner's almost incomprehensible mumbling as he announced songs was transformed into that clearly distinctive Sheffield charm when he sang them.
Combining shrewd political instincts, a relentless drive to cut costs and a little Irish charm, he's put phones into the hands of 7 million people in seven years.
William's sister Honey, played with goofy charm by Emma Chambers, even follows Anna into the bathroom.
Which helps explain why they channel their frustrations into those bizarre religious rites that so charm the tourists.
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The old linear accelerator at Stanford was repurposed, turning it from the machine that co-discovered a particle known as the charm quark (thus winning its operators a Nobel prize) into a factory for making particles called B mesons.
But today, a new community of creative design agencies, arts spaces and independent shops has turned the formerly seedy Chinatown quarter into a trendy district that still retains its old-world charm, with preserved colonial-era shophouses and historic covered walkways.
The charm offensive continued outside the gates to Downing Street, where the minister bumped into the photographer behind last week's pictures, Steve Back, and offered him a warm handshake.
And it is startling to see the power he invokes in Beethoven transform itself into a kind of flexible energy that gives the Johann Strauss Jr. arrangement its charm.
European diplomats ventured into the capital Yangon, formerly Rangoon, this week to discuss the junta's recent charm offensive, and came away little the wiser, though there are plenty of encouraging signs.
My family settled into a no-tell motel in a forgotten part of downtown Vicksburg, a neighborhood teetering between antebellum charm and hopeless decay.
In fact, in the current season, Scott seems to stumble into managerial success, outselling the other branches of the mid-size paper company with a modicum of charm and a naive sincerity that makes him almost impossible to distrust.
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