Sentences with phrase «charm of anecdotes»

The charm of anecdotes is that they are about people.

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The early years of their married life are described with humour and charm, with some nice anecdotes — my personal favourite is of Valerie taking their little daughter regularly to post letters to Denis when he was working abroad, and small Venetia expressing concern: «Poor Dadda, he must be very uncomfortable in that pillar - box!».

Calvin deploys the charm evident in a recent piece for The Blizzard that described his abandonment of Watford for Millwall to produce a book that is admirable in a great many ways, but is perhaps most significant for the juiciness of its anecdotes.

In telling his tales, Weiss seems to create his own personal event horizon, a charming screen of words and anecdotes behind which he conceals his deeper self.

However, surveying over 2400 EliteSingles members we discovered that the secrets people keep in relationships can also be a charming collection of relatable anecdotes, and that perhaps the little secrets we keep are actually a personal way of loving your partner.

While some secrets are undeniably hard truths to tell, after surveying over 2400 EliteSingles members we discovered that the secrets people keep in relationships can also be a charming collection of relatable anecdotes, and that perhaps the little secrets we keep are actually a personal way of loving your partner.

He also gave a charming anecdote about his parents» love of film growing up.

Which made me roll my eyes, as per usual, but then of course, Saoirse Ronan is somehow able to make the anecdote charming, talking about how «Sacramentoans» — she was careful not to make a blanket statement about «Americans» — say «perfickt» for perfect, and how hard it was for her to get her mouth around it.

He's been the picture of charm during the Call Me By Your Name press tour, a seemingly unending traveling road show where Hammer, his co-star Timothée Chalamet, and director Luca Guadagnino take turns relating disarming anecdotes about filming that manage to both satiate the film's rabid gay audience while stopping short of pandering, all while credibly evincing a perpetual Kinsey 3 vibe.

For his part, Thorp was thoroughly charmed by Buffett, writing later that Buffett was a «high speed talker with a Nebraska twang and a steady flow of jokes, anecdotes and clever sayings.»

Naturally, he knows his city inside out but in addition was very charming and witty and full of anecdotes.

Like its predecessors, it contains a solid amount of replay value, vast treasures to collect and lots of charming anecdotes that parallel past adventures.

Out of print since the year of its publication — fifty years ago, the same year as les événements — Nairn's Paris retains the same charm as his London, displaying a winning combination of subjective appreciation and entertaining architectural anecdotes.