He had an easy charm and the build of a lineman, six feet tall and barrel-chested.

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Iwata wasn't quite as articulate as he was at GDC, which may be the result of a press-only audience, but he still had the charm on.

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The only boy in a family of daughters, he was precocious and had charm to spare.

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Yet he had no shortage of charm.

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Sometimes, she remembered him as he had been when they first met: his charm, his quiet sense of humor, the little games he had played to amuse her.

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He had been a columnist for several Californian papers in the 1950s and always said, with great charm, that he had also been an occasional correspondent for The Economist.

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Certainly he had a rare combination of charm, intelligence and political acumen.

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After all, having yet to lose a league game in which he had scored, Tevez had become an inspirational lucky charm for Mancini's side.

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Best had the looks and charm to match his talent, a combination that meant he lived his life on and off the field under a permanent media spotlight.

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Constantly seeing powerful locomotives and precise signalling mechanisms, listening to the roar from the engines of heavy freight trains, the switchman felt that his reason had triumphed, as if he, too, were to blame for all this universal technological power and its charm.

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