(n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
(n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
(n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
(n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
(n.) To make music upon; to tune.
(n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
(n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
(n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
(n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
(v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
(v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
(v. i.) To make a musical sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(4) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(5) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(6) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(7) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(8) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(9) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(10) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
(11) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(12) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(13) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
(14) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(15) As to Beyoncé herself, Hamilton had nothing but praise: "She is a very smart, serene lady … utterly charming and focused."
(16) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(17) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(18) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) 5.14pm GMT Alan Pardew speaks ... With a smirk playing around his chops in a charm offensive on Sky Sports, he says he ‘massively regrets” sticking the hid on Hull City midfielder David Meyler and says he’ll be sitting down for matches in the future.
Enthral
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Regardless of one’s political leanings, the resulting images are spellbinding – to quote Guardian correspondent Toby Manhire: “The album, which has been publicly made available on Facebook , is enthralling.
(2) It takes your heart a little bit.” He had everyone enthralled.
(3) Ibrahimovic, so languid, had looked an embarrassment at times in this enthralling team, but everything Barça created began from the back.
(4) It took Maria Sharapova , four majors to the good and five years older, three hours and two minutes to subdue the 22-year-old over three enthralling sets.
(5) He remembers picking up an atlas (he was very interested in maps) and becoming enthralled by a solar system diagram at the back.
(6) She has sold more records than any other woman, enthralled fans at the Super Bowl and starred on the big screen as Eva Perón.
(7) But here we have an enthralling MLS playoff between perennial regular season titans Sporting Kansas City and, how should we put this, an overachieving New England Revolution.
(8) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
(9) Koenig’s original investigation has become a more awkward, enthralling, aggravating investigation into the nature of truth.
(10) Then there were the imported dramas broadcast because they were weighty, such as 1984's Heimat , an enthralling dramatisation of ordinary lives in 20th-century Germany.
(11) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(12) This was an enthralling stalemate both managers felt they could have won, but each seemed content with a point earned largely through excellent performances from defenders prepared time and again to throw their bodies on the line.
(13) The 2014 NCAA March Madness tournament opened with an enthralling upset that saw the sixth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes beaten by their neighbours from Dayton.
(14) On July 14, France's glamorous presidential couple enthralled the world.
(15) As an enthralling, thrilling, romantic, beautiful, fun, weird piece of art, few things have felt more relevant.
(16) While Westminster was enthralled by the eruption over the policy between Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and former Department for Education special adviser Dominic Cummings – with accusations flying that Clegg wanted Cummings charged under the official secrets act – school heads say they have been left to fend for themselves in parts of the country.
(17) That’s how, five years after I lost my friend, I gave away most of my belongings and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco , the setting of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, which had long enthralled me.
(18) In the mid 70s, the couple met Jackson Browne, who was immediately enthralled by Zevon's music.
(19) He could enthrall you with his lifelong passion for William Blake, his new-found interest in gardening, his arguments for proportional representation.
(20) By this point, the faithful are enthralled, the curious baffled and the traditionalists utterly bemused.