Mr Lander witnesses a patron angrily protest against these principles, only to be charmed into grateful acceptance by the proprietor.

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This includes, you will be charmed to discover, more sex: a dinner party and postprandial seduction scene on a French plantation, and the dreamy, sorrowful coupling of soldiers and Playboy models in the cockpit of a grounded helicopter.

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When you visit, you will be both charmed and impressed by how much fun the locals seem to get out of life.

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Until recently, Berlusconi appeared to be leading a charmed life.

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The former leader of the UK Independence Party has bounced back from cancer and a major road accident in the past, he explains, and is beginning to feel as if he might be leading a charmed life.

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Too often we have allowed ourselves to be placated and charmed by fantasies about umpire judges calling "balls and strikes, " without ever asking which league the game is being played in or whether the umpire was standing in the best position to see the play.

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The actress charmed to be sure, but the retailer paying the bill got lost in the comedy bit.

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"All the headlines will be about how Bush charmed us and built bipartisan ties, " the congressman said, adding that he wanted cameras inside the meeting to show the emotion and anger on people's faces.

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Defences were always likely to be stretched in the energy-sapping conditions and the Leeds tryline lived a charmed life for much of the first half.

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