| Despite his attempts to seem sophisticated and suave, he is endearingly naive, but also intelligent and thoughtful. |
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| Once more, Julia's endearingly grubby little hand hovered over the clasp of her tote. |
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| Literate lyrics, an insistent strum, and an endearingly adenoidal yelp combine for a thoroughly enjoyable song. |
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| Yet none of this means that the show, endearingly old-fashioned as it is, can be dismissed as jerry-built or, worse yet, geriatric. |
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| Thomas and his fellow engines' voices and endearingly primitive animation remain the same as in the much-loved television series. |
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| He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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| With his soft grey eyes, enviable cheekbones and hair that tousles endearingly at the merest touch, he has all the makings of a teen idol. |
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| And how did he go from endearingly pathetic to pathetically pathetic so fast? |
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| Preparing herself for a litany of soppy praise, Georgiana found her brother's narrative direct and endearingly touching. |
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| Sancho, too, despite his coarseness, is endearingly innocent. |
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| Her husband, who bragged endearingly about her desserts, is a beekeeper. |
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| Instead of sounding self-important, the effect is endearingly comic. |
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| Awarded the Musician Of The Year trophy, he endearingly apologised for being American and expressed his appreciation of the British folk community. |
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| In Hodge's hands he becomes, endearingly, a born loser, easily outwitted by the Chicago shark, Big Jule. |
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| Brandedasbackward and unsophisticated, the tradition of playing this evocative and endearingly plunky instrument almost disappeared. |
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| Mr. Hart said Mr. Broderick told her endearingly, trying to jog her memory. |
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| Juan is endearingly played by Juan Villegas, a non-professional with the face of a kindly friar, and his story is gently funny and acceptably sentimental. |
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| Plausibly and endearingly awkward, Joe is an immensely likeable hero. |
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| A projection screen flickers into life and Hope Of The States shamble onstage in that endearingly scruffy way that seems rather at odds with their borderline-highbrow music. |
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| There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune almost succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short. |
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| Pekar's endearingly pathetic life is given an new perspective when he translates his desultory day-today experiences into the basis for a cartoon strip. |
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| His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality-not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose. |
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| He speaks loudly, and endearingly frankly, and occasionally steals a surreptitious glance over his shoulder to make sure the room is indeed empty. |
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| Minal, endearingly cheerful but earlobeless, loves her work at a company that makes breakfast bars. |
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| The endearingly grumpy Frog splats on glass, then slowly oozes back to shape. This little fellow has a peculiar charm, in a grumpy, frog-like way. |
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| He was endearingly brave when, clad in a dressing gown, he pursued one of them through the streets in a bid to recover the wallet and jewellery which the ingrate had nicked. |
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| Hello, Susan Patton aka the endearingly self-named Princeton Mom. |
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| Ways of doing this include developing niche markets for their endearingly old-school vegetables and grains or even, as in Nepal, with the national equivalent of a harvest festival. |
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| Manuel and Lisa walked in front of them, endearingly holding hands. |
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| With its long skinny legs, large yellow eyes and habit of freezing in the face of danger, the bush stone-curlew is an endearingly strange bird. |
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| Joachim looks endearingly over the shoulder of his wife at their daughter. |
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| You've seen practically every inch of Ryan Kwanten as the endearingly dim himbo Jason Stackhouse on HBO's hit vampire drama True Blood. |
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| I could no more resist him than stop breathing,' Sian says of her former husband, whom she endearingly calls simply 'O'Toole' throughout the book. |
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| Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone. |
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