Many residents welcomed Aurora's redevelopment, but in a community that has labored to preserve its historic, low-key charm, others feared character-altering changes.

"Something New" isn't especially new, which is actually part of its low-key charm.

Charlottetown P.E.I.'s only city (population 30,000) sets the tone of the island's low-key charm.

Comfortable wicker chairs and petite pots of dried flowers on each table add to the low-key charm.

Without the swimming pool and organized water sports of the Resort Hotel, the 18-bungalow Pousada has a low-key charm.

Montauk has its own low-key charms, the kind of mindless, grungy summer pleasures you might have had when you were a teenager.

A new mountainside development is under way in Stowe, Vt., a state known more for environmental ethics and low-key charm than for luxury projects.

Nonetheless, for its first act, the play emanates a comfortably low-key, old-fashioned charm.

Pros Eastport is working hard to retain its low-key charm.

But in person, Ms. Beinecke is difficult to growl at, for she turns out to be possessed of a low-key charm and approachable warmth.