To gamblers this lovably shabby tournament confers a bit of international pride.

FORBES: Stacking the Deck

Lowe's 1994 album The Impossible Bird helped launch a comeback of sorts, finding sleeper success and re-establishing him as a lovably misanthropic pop elder statesman.

NPR: Nick Lowe: Celebrating a Pop Legend

The filmmakers try to make Arquette and Slater lovably goofy compared to the rest of the characters, including the atavistic mafiosi of Detroit and the coke-snorting scuzzballs of Hollywood.

NEWYORKER: True Romance

Here, Coldplay rage in their own lovably goofy way.

CNN: Review: Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' has grander textures

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first album, 2003's Fever to Tell, was a lovably messy record that combined socked-out riffs, cascading sheets of noise and the caterwauling and cracked moans of singer Karen O.

NPR: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Show Your Bones'

This collaboration between the documentary maker Robert Mugge and the music critic Robert Palmer (who wrote the sweeping, inclusive 1981 history of the same name), is a lovably rough-hewn presentation of rural blues today.

NEWYORKER: Deep Blues