Positive personality trait

Charming

adj. Pleasant, attractive, and likely to inspire affection.

3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Puts people at ease within a few minutes of meeting them.
  • Remembers names and small details, and asks about them.
  • Makes ordinary conversation feel lively and personal.

Fits when someone is pleasant company and easily makes people like them

Not when the charm is used to win people over for the person's own ends

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

There is no resume line for this one: charm claimed on paper sounds like salesmanship. Describe the clients you won or kept instead.

Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.

  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is charming with [clients, guests or patients]: people who arrive [nervous or annoyed] leave smiling, and many ask for them by name.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is charming and polite with visitors and makes new classmates feel welcome.
  • In a story, shown not told
    He had been in the village a week and already knew the baker's daughter's exam results and the name of the postman's dog.
Example

The charming old man had a story about every shop on the street.

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