(1) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(2) The military prosecutor, major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
(3) The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
(4) Intellectual stimulation, charisma, and individual consideration constitute aspects of transformational leadership that are suggested to enhance retention and staff satisfaction.
(5) Lovejoy was a big deal, with X Factor-sized ratings: McShane's easygoing charisma reeled in up to 16m viewers a week.
(6) "The family charisma has faded away," senior BJP figure Arun Jaitley said on Monday.
(7) He has charisma, he’s self-made and that’s why the Pakistani establishment hates him.” The MQM has come into ever greater conflict with the rangers in the last two years as both the central government in Islamabad and the powerful army have sought to impose order on the unruly port city of 20 million people.
(8) Too often we in New Labour thought that the mixture of being in the right policy position, uttering the right language and relying on Tony's charisma was enough.
(9) Gant added that, despite Kelly Brooks's insistence that she always knew her ex-boyfriend would be the next Hollywood action star, Statham does not have the charisma and humour of a Bruce Willis.
(10) Some astronauts from past generations have not been known for their charisma.
(11) Three invaluable points were the material return from the man who oozes charisma and is deadly serious about winning matches.
(12) Hopes that Barack Obama would deploy his authority as the leader of the world's largest economy — and his political charisma — to try to broker a last-minute deal were also frustrated.
(13) The charisma of August Forel and the impressions of atmosphere at the Zurich Burghölzli must already have had a formative effect on Hauptmann in 1888.
(14) Susuks or charm needles are a form of talisman inserted and worn subcutaneously, in the face and other parts of the body, in the belief that they will enhance or preserve the wearer's beauty, youth, charisma, strength or health, or bring success in business.
(15) With his moral authority and charisma, the pope has helped reframe climate change from an arcane set of negotiations into an issue with sweeping moral implications.
(16) He is in many ways a fascinating player all round: a beautifully balanced two-footed playmaker who is at the same time not particularly athletic, not particularly quick, not particularly strong, not blessed with disorienting charisma or given to outlandish moments of extraordinary skill.
(17) At the same time this is an unusual elite footballer with unusual elite gifts, one whose outline can often be obscured by that irresistible charisma.
(18) She said: "He's got natural charm and charisma, very quick witted, and he's pretty small-c conservative in his political leanings, with a default setting towards protectionism.
(19) The result raises wider questions over whether the result is a simple one-off reflecting Galloway's personal charisma, or instead a sign of a wider detachment from mainstream party politics.
(20) But you can’t, you’ve got to take him as he is.” Unlike Kennedy, who exuded Hollywood-style charisma, Johnson would have been ill-suited to the age of mass media and social media.
Charismatic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a charism.
Example Sentences:
(1) His teacher was the charismatic Father Matta el-Meskin (Matthew the Poor), later to become an opponent.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(3) Dimon, the charismatic leader of the bank, had enjoyed a reputation as a tough, strict taskmaster, the kind of CEO every bank should have.
(4) Wealthy, charismatic, aristocratic, 6ft 2ins and with a luxuriant moustache, he led a decadent life.
(5) The party never favoured the social democratic approach of Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the Yabloko party, with whom Nemtsov was often bracketed in foreign media as charismatic “young democrats”.
(6) In an article for the Guardian, the author Ahdaf Soueif, Laila's sister, described her nephew as a "central, charismatic figure" who "embodies some of the core aspects of the Egyptian revolution".
(7) Indeed as the media has been telling us, all the right ingredients are here: a charismatic leader, fractions in the political hierarchy, and a critical mass of protesters.
(8) Sarkozy is charismatic and bling-bling; all flashy watches, Aviator sunglasses and supermodel wife.
(9) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
(10) The report said the charity’s charismatic founder Camila Batmanghelidjh was allowed by trustees to be in total control of the organisation.
(11) Most important, Okonjo-Iweala is a charismatic and effective diplomat as well as a good economist, admired and liked in China, in Africa and in the advanced economies.
(12) Bo Xilai , the ousted Chongqing party secretary, was a charismatic but divisive leader who shared her ambition and taste for publicity and her revolutionary heritage.
(13) The work won the Ted Hughes award even without Tempest's charismatic live delivery – the judges heard a recorded version but were still unanimous in their decision.
(14) "Quite apart from the fact that they're charismatic species, they're indicators of the level of robustness that there is within the marine environment, and if we're seeing populations declining rapidly like this, it's got to ring alarm bells."
(15) He relapsed, after three years off drugs, while in Coldingley Prison and was making a slow recovery when, in 2007, a charismatic volunteer, herself a former alcoholic, came to talk to inmates who were trying to kick drugs and alcohol.
(16) "The reality is that oil has not brought development," this charismatic academic tells me, when we meet in his office at Flacso university, Quito.
(17) Compared with his charismatic, radicalised older brother, whom Tsarnaev followed “like a puppy” in the words of one witness, the defendant was portrayed throughout the trial as a weaker, lesser character.
(18) The efficacy of medicine depends on sensible management of the medical profession as a charismatic status.
(19) What has made this organisation vulnerable is not the charismatic and highly individual approach of its founder, but the fact that its ethos derives from that of psychotherapy and hence may disturb the worldview of the political class.
(20) We argue that its founder, Bill W., played a crucial role as a charismatic leader and that AA found a unique organizational solution to the problem of charismatic succession, a solution that helped AA maintain growth and stability beyond the life of its founder.