| We elevate charmless, self-obsessed artists with bloated egos to the status of cultural icons just because they can carry a tune. |
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| You never forget that he is giving a performance and rarely overcome the fact that he plays such a selfish, charmless character. |
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| I'd also like to note how much I'm enjoying watching two intelligent, hardworking, and largely honourable people do charmless politics. |
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| Future political analysts will wonder how this cold, charmless, gormless man ever became the nominee of a major party. |
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| Even as you drive past you wish you had brought your chainsaw along to clear away the charmless green fuzz that inhibits sight of the lovely bay. |
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| But for aficionados of charmless architecture, it would be advisable to move fast. |
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| It has turned a city of fascinating, age-old neighbourhoods into a charmless metropolis. |
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| This charmless quality surfaced again in the heat of the primary battle against Mr McCain. |
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| Aurel: We are a bit disappointed by Aswan, a charmless city despite the Nil's presence. |
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| Worked at charmless little jobs before becoming a copy editor in book publishing. |
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| I ride across a totally charmless peri-urban industrial area that turned all the more miserable that the dark grey skies were low and soaked. |
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| Right off the highway, in a charmless parking lot, it gave off no hint of luxury. |
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| Ruthless, charmless, utterly without principle, her Gwen Harrison is a complete and utter ogress. |
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| They sing like drunks in a midnight choir, dance like goats on mescalin and are, frankly, pretty charmless. |
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| We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch. |
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| I remember for a long time feeling totally charmless and unhandsome and I know there are so many others who still feel the same way. |
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| A corner house is for sale at a scarcely believable 2.7m rupees. India's cities, by and large, are charmless and badly put together. |
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| The interiors had the charmless elegance of upscale hotel suites. |
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| Johanna, a charmless middle-aged woman is sending furniture to a man she's been corresponding with and who she believes is intending to marry her. |
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| He is utterly charmless and few people are gullible enough to believe him. |
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| Perhaps it was his inability to sell the Agreement to the average unionist led to the downfall of this clever but rather charmless and now isolated figure. |
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| This was a wise attitude, because they are, to be frank, charmless. |
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| Paul is a stateless kind of chap, born in France but not belonging there since his mother brought him as a child to Australia with her second, charmless, Dutch husband. |
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| Instead we tag along with this charmless duo from one tense standoff to another, learning too little about the characters to give gravity to the tragic ending that awaits. |
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| While we are aware of the tension that keeps Jake and his crew one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops, the physical nature of the job is pretty charmless. |
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| Buildings were dilapidated, stained, and charmless, except for the magnificent churches which, small or large, were made warmly inviting by their many icons and lit candles. |
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| He is certainly deeply charmless, but how deliberate is that? |
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| Is it charmless beauty, which is painted time and again? |
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| We've apparently been unfair to a seriously dangerous, charmless charver, who's really just a little misunderstood. |
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| But he's a breezy batsman and a tidy keeper who seems to have the necessary gumption, rather than charmless gormlessness behind the stumps. |
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| Remember Lionel Jospin, the charmless but competent Socialist prime minister who retired last month after being ignominiously bounced out by Mr Le Pen in the presidential election's first round in April? |
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| In the charmless, faux rustic dining-room, where in wintertime skiers help themselves at the self-service buffet, a plastic Indian garland hangs in the carved wooden doorway and Bollywood songs play from the loudspeakers. |
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| But the author's charmless, loveless eye brings this effort crashing down. |
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