Charmless \Charm"less\, a. Destitute of charms. --Swift.
Singing that uninflected and charmless makes him happy? So it went for much of the evening.
He is arrogant, charmless and possessed of an outsize business aggression which has driven Microsoft to annual sales of more than Dollars 2.5bn but won him few friends on the way. But this is merely the point at which Cringely begins to turn the knife.
And while Mansell and Faldo, unlike Fischer, have managed to marry and start families, it is still clear that they are difficult men, frequently self-centred and charmless. For some reason sports addicts find this very difficult to accept.
Since medieval times, the Louvre has evolved from a turreted fairy-tale castle to a stiff-backed royal palace to a rambling pile of galleries rendered charmless by noisy crowds and by I.M. Pei's pyramidal glass entrance.