How To Use Charmingly In A Sentence
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True, Olbermann and Patrick would also make plenty of references to pop culture, but the references came across as charmingly haughty, as if the anchormen were showing us that they had interests that extended beyond the court or field.
The Enthusiast
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But a long way from endless fields of sunflowers and locals arguing charmingly about porcini.
Times, Sunday Times
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For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait.
Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland
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The panel laughed over Mike Huckabee's Sunday touting of his poll numbers among Republicans, which Douthat termed characteristically "charmingly passive-aggressive.
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Elf is a charmingly daffy movie that feels like a leap back in time to more genuinely heart-warming Christmas fare.
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Images includes those of vivid rehearsals as well as behind-the-scenes pictures of seminal company personalities such as Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois, plus never-before-seen views of the dancers off duty, most charmingly a snap of Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nureyev, drinking in a London pub.
This week's new dance
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‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
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The characters are unengaging, the actors never called upon to produce anything beyond pure ham (although they do it charmingly enough).
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There's something charminglyold-fashioned about his brand of entertainment.
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He is the type not of the charmingly nutty but of the exhaustingly garrulous professor.
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It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them.
Adam Bede
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How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420).
Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
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My pleas that people read a lot of old stuff must have seemed charmingly quaint.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is an astonishing comeback for someone who, five years ago, was charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling a black lavatory assistant a 'jigaboo' before charmingly punching her in the face.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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The Houthoop Guest Farm is charmingly rustic cabins, aviaries, a giant plunge pool and a beautifully boho dining room and bar built by Veronica Van Dyk and her husband.
South Africa beyond the World Cup: the remote west coast
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
This week's new singles
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The last section is outtakes, titled, charmingly if a little dottily, ‘A Lagniappe for the Reader.’
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It was this renaissance that gave the death-blow to the squireen type of phoney Irish writing which created that charmingly-inane myth wearing a "caubeen", smoking a "dudheen", long upper-lipped, with shamrocks growing from his ears-the stage Irishman.
The Irish Mind
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He trained at the Canadian National Ballet School, hence the transatlantic lilt to his charmingly fractured English.
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Mandralisca found this new Barjazid just as charmingly repellent as his elder brother had been.
KING OF DREAMS
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Russians feel passionately about their folk music, reflecting as it does values of courage, pride and love, as well as a self-mocking humour that is charmingly British.
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My pleas that people read a lot of old stuff must have seemed charmingly quaint.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Inoffensive, energetic and pleasantly silly comic froth, David Dobkin's jaunty Shanghai Knights serves up robust verbal cut and thrust from the ever willing Chan and his charmingly dippy, English-baiting foil, Wilson.
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We've got charmingly overpriced neighborhood boutiques, designer shops on Madison, endless tchotchke bazaars crowding the parks and big, dumb chain stores lining Fifth Avenue.
Holidays at the Pawn Shop
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And they are all charmingly conscious of the dangers of letting their fame and fortune go to their heads.
The Sun
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Before we get back to what you charmingly call the debrief, Gus ...
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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She is also charmingly open about her faults, such as her quick temper and flightiness: I always expect people to behave much better than I do.
2009 December 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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I didn't for example know that such a sport actually existedcharmingly called 'murderball' although there was no evidence that anyone had indeed been murdered during the sportbut turns out there is and it's fun to watch.
Don't believe anyone-certainly not me
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And they are all charmingly conscious of the dangers of letting their fame and fortune go to their heads.
The Sun
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Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
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But a long way from endless fields of sunflowers and locals arguing charmingly about porcini.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fairlane’s misadventures begin when heavy-metal scuzzbag Bobby Black (Vince Neil) dies mysteriously and shock jock Johnny Crunch (Gilbert Gottfried) hires Fairlane to find his space-cadet groupie daughter Zuzu Petals (the charmingly out-of-it Maddie Corman).
My Year of Flops
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And they are all charmingly conscious of the dangers of letting their fame and fortune go to their heads.
The Sun
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She veers between charmingly flirtatious and excessively winsome, the latter especially when preparing for her deathbed scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Your Highness, forgive me for saying so, but you look absolutely ravishing tonight,’ he said smoothly, grinning at her charmingly.
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Glassner, with her charmingly unkempt curls, crocheted dress, and Brooklyn ZIP code, has already upstaged the other fashion editors, whose dramatic hair (peroxide blonde, flat-ironed) and outfits (stilettos, leather) seemed almost boringly predictable.
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The windows at the back of the bridge are charmingly stained.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Its architecture, furniture, design, function and systems are charmingly retro.
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The name murmured at the door had not reached my ears, and I was still wondering which of my child-friends had developed into this charming and fashionable young lady, when Tabitha burst into the room, flung her arms round the new-comer's neck, and exclaimed, "You darling, who would have expected you to turn up so charmingly, just when we didn't expect you!
A Loose End and Other Stories
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The windows at the back of the bridge are charmingly stained.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She fluffed her flowing hair and smiled charmingly at me.
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Amusement touched her eyes and lips so charmingly that he thought of the sea at dawn, rimpled by the morning breeze, gay with the laughter of young sunlight.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza
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There's something charminglyold-fashioned about his brand of entertainment.
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She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure and fine.
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The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
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The derivation of the word ‘quail’ has been charmingly explored by the author who points out that it is an imitative name, cognate with ‘quack’.
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And they are all charmingly conscious of the dangers of letting their fame and fortune go to their heads.
The Sun
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That time, Beijing looked like a big gift package decorated with colorful paper, brightly and charmingly.
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We have seldomly seen an artist who can express a typical mood, pose or sentiment so poignantly and charmingly with what looks like a few simple shapes and ink lines.
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On screen, their national spokesmen and women smile charmingly and portray themselves as decent people who may be a bit wet but are unlike the other politicians.
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This sister of actor, Warren Beaty is an outspoken American actress and dancer known for her deft portrayal of charmingly eccentric characters and for her interest in mysticism and reincarnation.
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By the Middle Ages, no cathedral, guildhall or town hall was complete without a virtual battalion of these charmingly grotesque little guys.
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But a long way from endless fields of sunflowers and locals arguing charmingly about porcini.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a charmingly giddy young man and upon hearing him laugh for the first time her heart skipped a beat, somewhat surprised.
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But this charmingly dim remark does highlight the drawbacks of young stars abandoning education too early in favour of fame and fortune.
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The Empire of Dreams documentary sometimes lapses charmingly into home-video compilation, showing the main characters goofing and corpsing.
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A large jug and basin, charmingly ornamented with a design of blue ribbon, was its centre-piece.
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Temperatures were wrong all day, in fact: two finos (served, charmingly, in tiny individual carafes) were too warm to drink, the waiter apologising that there was ‘something wrong with the refrigeration’.
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And then the village, with its buildings and gardens covering the level bank to the southward, is charmingly placed, the waters spreading before it, a ridge of hills rising on either side, this almost wholly wooded, that partly tilled, while beyond lies a background, varied by nearer and farther heights.
Rural Hours
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The charmingly titled cagómetro - Barcelona's very own crapping-yourself-ometre, measuring Catalan fear by the crapahertz - was flickering into life.
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It is, as your ex so charmingly phrases it, 'unmeaning', or its more brutal definition, meaningless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drugs should be presented as the Great Evil because of their effects on what he charmingly calls the murkier parts of our society.
Arrogant Gods of Certainty
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He was so obviously intelligent; so charmingly articulate; so incredibly well read.
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Burwell is known for her visionary grab bag of charmingly painted furniture, and increasingly, for her stunning computer graphics work.
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Like his apartment, he radiates a charmingly disheveled elegance, jaunty in jeans and an open-necked cream shirt.
Currency Chaos: Where Do We Go From Here?
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It's in the heart of the resort and rooms are charmingly simple, with reclaimed wood walls and modern art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hope Street, though charmingly raffish, was a far cry from Blenheim Road.
RESCUING ROSE
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Its second section, an adagio, is charmingly Brahmsian while the ensuing scherzo sets two original themes against each other at breakneck speed, bristling with impossibilities.
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Well we recall all those charmingly piqued 'conservatives' who'd clutch the pearls as they shrieked, cried & caterwauled over & over & over again for Years about those 'nasty Clinton's!!'
Awkward questions - poli
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It's in the heart of the resort and rooms are charmingly simple, with reclaimed wood walls and modern art.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked charmingly animated, and now and then a light ripple of her laughter floated out on the air as sweet as the songs of the birds chirming around them.
God's Good Man
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It's in the heart of the resort and rooms are charmingly simple, with reclaimed wood walls and modern art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Originally made as a three-part series for French TV, it is five-and-a-half hours long in its full form (though a half-length feature is also on release in the UK), exhaustively researched and often exhilarating to watch, as we track the fledgling revolutionary, charmingly portrayed by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez, through countless countries, attacks, hijackings and escapes, to his eventual arrest in Sudan in 1994.
Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
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There are charmingly rickety old-style shutters on both the inside and outside of the long tall windows and large mirrored floor-to-ceiling wardrobes add to the sense of space.
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How does he know that Nicholas II rolled his R's charmingly?
Czar-Crossed Writers
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The place is certainly atmospheric, the owner charmingly eccentric.
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A low-maintenance, charmingly flatulent dream.
Times, Sunday Times
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She now lives an eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, two neurotic dogs, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.
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But this charmingly dim remark does highlight the drawbacks of young stars abandoning education too early in favour of fame and fortune.
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‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
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Frown would have been a more appropriate appellation had this charmingly unique collection been allowed to languish unfinished.
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When you came afterwards to think over one of those wonderful evenings when he had talked for hours, almost without interruption, you hardly found more than an epigram, a fugitive flash of critical insight, an apologue or pretty story charmingly told.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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And they are all charmingly conscious of the dangers of letting their fame and fortune go to their heads.
The Sun
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There's something charminglyold-fashioned about his brand of entertainment.
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He was so obviously intelligent; so charmingly articulate; so incredibly well read.
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his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly
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The result is charmingly eclectic, and quite unique for Bulgaria, where nondescript design still prevails.
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Mary, charmingly, has already had some traditional sealskin clothes made - we don't know if she chose the animals to be bludgeoned to death herself, or left it up to the experts.
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Yes, Massenet tells the tale charmingly and makes much of those moments that have fuelled children's make-believe for all time – the ball, the midnight-hour escape and that magical shoe-fitting episode.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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The face, which is presented in profile, is finely cut, and charmingly framed in short, clustering curls.
Child-life in Art
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You certainly know it's a quaint country town, too, because the station master has mutton chops and immediately complains about a disagreement over the tea room, and because every sound effect is a duck quacking or the butcher's preferred refrain ( "scum!"), and because the narrator's ponderous delivery is continually enlivened by a "puffing conveyance", "vittles" or a "muuuurdeeeer". caribou nibbling the hoops (and believe me when I tell you there is no greater praise), but as you set about interrogating the town's charmingly stereotypical inhabitants you realise this is more than a convenient hook.
Eurogamer
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Adriana asked, bracing herself for more of his charmingly unrestrained immodesty.
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As noted by watch enthusiasts (who charmingly and understatedly refer to themselves as "Watch Guys"), Barack Obama only last year stopped wearing a TAG-Heuer sports watch he'd had for more than a decade.
President Obama's Watch - Anil Dash
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From time to time even now readjustments are made in the details of all three indexes, the fossil, the modern, and the embryonic, the method of rearrangement being charmingly simple: _just taking a card out of one place and putting it into another place_ where we may think it more properly belongs.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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‘The sky is my domain,’ the self-taught aerialist explains in charmingly fractured English.
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The one on the white horse was fearfully handsome and charmingly polite.
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Sechseläuten, or, The Snowman Explodes today was Sechseläuten, a traditional zürich festival which supposedly forecasts the type of summer we will have, and how long it will be until we see some damn sun around here again. a huge bonfire is built in the big park at bellevue, with a cotton snowman (the charmingly named 'böögg') perched on top, loaded with fireworks and explosives. the quicker mr böögg explodes and bursts apart, the better our summer wil be. according to today's exploding snowman, the sun will take 17.51 days to get here. i don't know if i can wait that long!
Sechseläuten, or, The Snowman Explodes
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It is, as your ex so charmingly phrases it, 'unmeaning', or its more brutal definition, meaningless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course - any natives suspected of loyalty would be fair game - including the gora-colonel's lapdog, as Ram Mangal had charmingly called me.
Fiancée
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
First footsteps in East Africa
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He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.
Where the Blue Begins
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‘No,’ he replied, sounding charmingly unrehearsed, given how many times he's probably been asked this question.
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In 2001 Hebden perfected what neologists might term ‘folktronica’ on Pause, a late summer's melange of delicate found-sound sonics and charmingly recontextualised acoustic melodies and beats.
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Spanish mansions, with the usual charmingly 'escalloped' roof, all resting on a prolonged colonnade or piazza, strange, old-fashioned, and original, running round to a vast extent, which the sensible town has decreed is never to be interfered with.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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Most charmingly, there is an array of heraldic beasts: lions passant, dragons rampant, griffins segreant and more.
NYT > Home Page
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Yet here at the feast none was merrier than Kincaid, who, charmingly egged on by Flora, kept those about him in gales of mirth, and even let himself be "cajoled" (to use his own term) into singing this song whose title had become his nickname.
Kincaid's Battery
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But we sex-pozzies, as your camp so charmingly refers to us as, have always and will always detest sex slavery the most.
Being Amber Rhea
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A fourth kind of adjective is called by the grammarians an ADVERB; which has generally been formed from the first kind of adjectives, as these were frequently formed from correspondent substantives; or it has been formed from the third kind of adjectives, called participles; and this is effected in both cases by the addition of the syllable ly, as wisely, charmingly.
Note XIV
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Nowhere in literature has the virtue of mere innocent gladness been more charmingly imagined than in her morning outbreak of expectancy, half animal glee, half spiritual joy; the “whole sunrise, not to be suppressed” is a limitless splendour, but the reflected beam cast up from the splash of her ewer and dancing on her poor ceiling is the same in kind; in the shrub-house up the hill-side are great exotic blooms, but has not Pippa her one martagon lily, over which she queens it?
Robert Browning
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Although finely, even charmingly, detailed, its overall design is inconsistent.
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As you Americans say, so charmingly yet so ungrammatically, you do the math.
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This is charmingly old-fashioned stuff, reminding you of the Victorian explorer who knocked out a boa constrictor with a straight right.
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The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
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For now we will explain how the biblical message charmingly speaks of this kind of communing with the Lord.
Biblical Prayer Themes, Part IV
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Nunez is a graying, handsome man who dresses for no one and has a charmingly temperate demeanor.
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He then smiled charmingly as he offered me a hard-boiled egg from his plate, warning that the yolk had been removed.
