(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.
Funk
Definition:
(n.) An offensive smell; a stench.
(v. t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
(v. i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
(v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
(n.) Alt. of Funking
Example Sentences:
(1) The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>> , has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century.
(2) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(3) White guys working with a black guy, playing funk!’ We play what we play cos that’s what we like, and we work with George because he’s great.
(4) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
(5) It's a gently defiant position to be taking, the band conscious that what they're doing marks a sea change from the no wave and punk-funk tendencies that dominated US indie music throughout the noughties.
(6) He liked the band, and we gave him $10,000, which was probably a big influence.” Their second (far more unlikely) collaboration with P-Funk main man Clinton was such a success that the mere mention of his name sends the band into a love-glow of awe.
(7) She dared not tell Clifford she was pregnant, for she was in a Funk.
(8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(9) The courts will have to decide on the level of sentences, but that penalty is in principle absolutely possible for sexual offences,” he told the Funke newspaper group.
(10) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
(11) Breaking the record for the most streamed track in a single week, Uptown Funk has been listened to nearly 2.34m times in the past seven days, overtaking Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud, which notched up 1.72m streams in a single week in November.
(12) Emerging from Washington DC in the 1970s and led by Chuck "godfather of go-go" Brown, go-go was a relation of funk music but one that was rarely cut to vinyl.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
(14) Video of the year and best collaboration: Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best female video and best pop video: Taylor Swift - Blank Space Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best male video: Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best hip-hop video: Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best rock video: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist to watch: Trap Queen – Fetty Wap Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best direction: Kendrick Lamar – Alright Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best video with a social message: Big Sean feat Kayne West and John Legend – One Man Can Change The World Facebook Twitter Pinterest
(15) She was, for instance, the translator of Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series , a German young adult fantasy trilogy which reached number two in the New York Times bestseller list.
(16) "These are performances by one of the greatest funk-rock bands ever," wrote Ben Beaumont-Thomas in the Guardian .
(17) There's a You Got The Look with power chords chiselled out of funk licks; a How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore performed solo at the piano with all of its devastating naivety.
(18) It's all over Blow's delicious throwback funk and the atmospheric thump of the Crazy In Love sequel, Drunk In Love, which features Jay Z seemingly ignoring the pair's current vegan diet as he raps about how he likes Beyoncé's breasts for breakfast.
(19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
(20) More pop-Prince than dark magus funk, it feels more like the start of a conversation than a definitive statement, but it’s a fascinating fusion of styles.