That's evident in the movie's best scene, when Elena and O come face to face as captor and captive, and O, revealing a sweetly banal attitude toward life, rambles on about her days at a community college and her charmed existence with Chon and Ben.
There is a sense in which I think that I have led a charmed life, with a wonderful wife, Eileen and three children, one son-in-law and two grandchildren.
The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.
But as she grew more confident in international circles, she relaxed and charmed many of those she met with her sparkle.
Within a few years, I released a book, Lives Charmed, which featured juicy interviews with Leeza Gibbons, Arnold Palmer, Catherine Oxenberg, Paul Williams, and Woody Harrelson.
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Intelligent and beautiful, with dark brown hair, she charmed the President's guests--from visiting celebrities like Charles Dickens to enthusiastic countrymen.
An avid horticulturalist, he charmed Catherine Deneuve at a dinner party by talking with her for hours about a rare species of peony.
Tabler describes one meeting he attended with European diplomats where the first lady charmed everyone and left the impression that the Syrian first family was approachable, at least compared to other members of her husband's regime.
Many thought that the real reason was that she was an outsider, a brainbox with a provincial background, not a member of the charmed circle of reformers in Warsaw.
But when the 23-year-old American from Texas played Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff with soul-rending mastery, the audience already charmed by Mr. Cliburn's warmth and homespun manner in his public appearances went wild.
In fact, when the Olympics went head to head with Idol in the 9 p.m. hour, the Games charmed an even larger audience of 30.1 million.
Along the way she charmed Presidents and policymakers, diplomats and decorators, even as she terrified wives by having affairs with their husbands, some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men.
Bacon charmed the crowd when he quoted from what he dubbed the Holy Book of the South: Gone With the Wind.
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