Not surprisingly for a man so charming and cheerful, he liked the ladies, and they liked him (he didn't marry until late in life).
The novels, which feature Precious Ramotswe, a "traditionally built" woman of unspecified age, are so charming and gentle it might be surprising to learn that many of the characters and places mentioned in them are drawn directly from real life.
And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion.
So begins Jonathan Tolins' utterly charming and often whacky one-man show that opened Wednesday at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater starring a superb Michael Urie.
It would have been so easy for him, my charming brother, to make a sleek drama of his story, but he did not.
Telluride is one of the most charming in skiing, so historic and Old West that it is home to the first bank ever robbed by Butch Cassidy.
Yet so good has the firm been in charming the markets that there is now a risk of it disappointing.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
So we knew he was really quite charming and quite funny and quite glib and, certainly, the national media has fallen in love with him over the past few months.
Still is. (Applause.) He was charming, talented, and oh, so very, very smart.
He was handsome. (Applause.) Still is. (Applause.) He was charming, talented, and oh-so smart. (Applause.) But that is not why I married him.
The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.
So we note with great satisfaction that Jackie Chan, who made his literary debut with a charming autobiographical essay in TIME's 1997 special issue on Hong Kong, has found fame in the movie business.
As charming as Peter is, Hook will be the meat of the series, made so by Mr. Ifans's ability to convey all the passion, despair and horror of which a man may be capable.
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The charming, well-educated Fox-Pitt could have chosen any path through life - so why live his years on the edge as an eventer?
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