winsomeness

Yet Richard deliberately chooses detachment over intimacy or winsomeness.

And yet it may be precisely that winsomeness that grates on Carmela.

Her elfin charm and Gallic winsomeness anchored the performance.

Despite their pretty faces and the winsomeness of them, they are nothing but maws attached to enormous guts."

Winsomeness can work wonders in person.

Probably, though no doubt I'd possessed considerably less composure and utterly lacked Elizabeth's innate winsomeness.

The writer has been repelled at times by Murillo's winsomeness but, if decadence in art is ever forgivable, he commands admiration.

He felt like a burglar, stealing around the hidden fiction he could Make of her, carrying only his own youthful winsomeness and a psychic flashlight.

Men get one whiff of her winsomeness, and they fall all over one another for the chance to fall all over her.

Mr. Ilku, a performance artist, brings a natural winsomeness to the trickier and less credible role of Joe.

Ms. Conroy never loses her winsomeness and even discovers the vulnerability beneath Ann's evident vitality.

She may get sexier as she grows up, but the winsomeness with a hint of an earthy edge was all there in Wildflower, her coming-of-age debut.

Be- cause the reporter was rapidly becoming a man something of his man's appeal, combined with the winsomeness of the boy, stirred the heart of the lonely woman.

Toy merchants and child psychologists say the toy's popularity is due as much to a few strokes of marketing genius as to the toy's cuddly winsomeness.

Phoebe Legere plays the physically spectacular Claire (who never wears more clothes than she has to) with a lot of Marie Wilson's comic winsomeness.

He soon spotted several well-dressed young women who strolled up and down their particular stretch of pavement, faltering and looking up with decorous winsomeness when a likely man passed.

And Jill Paice, as the classically winsome ingénue who captures Cioffi's heart, subtly and deliciously sends up classical winsomeness.

But we cannot escape a more recent, more troubled history, in which delicious resourcefulness was constantly undermined, attacked or crushed by the forces of unyielding winsomeness and near-monstrous girlish vivacity.

A trouser role requiring both tonal beauty and winsomeness, the part is becoming widely associated with Ms. Kirchschlager, who in September made her Geneva Opera debut as Octavian.

Her eyes were not as haunting as Ms. Ryder's, but she revealed a childlike vulnerability, a winsomeness in spite of her powerful sexuality, which made me want to protect her from all cruelty and disappointment.

She is less assertive than Miss Martin and less crisply British than Miss Andrews, but along with a little all-American awkwardness she brings her own winsomeness and vulnerability to the part.

As the "Venus of Ozone Heights," who comes to life and steps down from her pedestal, she had her customary winsomeness, singing her signature song, "That's Him," simply sitting in a chair facing the audience.

She was politely interested in Keith's ranch, and if she clung persistently to her society manner, why, her society manner was very pleasing, if somewhat unsatisfying to a fellow fairly drunk with her winsomeness.

"It's our anniversary," she wheedles, paralyzing the guy's resistance with a winsomeness more powerful than cobra venom and, not coincidentally, reminiscent of her character in "Amélie," the 2001 hit that made Ms. Tautou a budding international star.

Julie Delpy (last seen in Tavernier's Passion Beatrice) imbues Sabeth with all the solemnity of youth without ever dwindling into winsomeness, and Barbara Sukowa, as Faber's early love, has a robust mystique.