Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
Actually, I think Rudy has more charm than Eliot.
A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
My ignorance is not charming.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,