A boy soprano with considerable operatic experience, he sang the music attractively, but in his dour exchanges with the Governess, he showed little of Miles's wily charm.

Money immediately alerted Hebert, who nonethless succumbed to Williams' wily charms.

But even fog seems like a part of the city's wily charms, a little game of hide-and-seek, a meteorological striptease.

She knew Regis too well to be taken in by his wily charms.

His wily charm is that he's endearingly so.

He then takes advantage of a female postal worker with his wily charms to gain access to Susan Hollander's new address.

Jealous sirens, unable to tempt him with their wily charms, dragged Cristalda to the bottom of the sea and turned the heartbroken Pizzomunno into a rock.

Children are taught that Samson was a hero who fought the Philistines and fell victim to Delilah's wily charms.

And the brilliance of Mr. Gere's performance - one of his best since middle age liberated his wily charm from his leading-man looks - is that he makes you believe in Irving without believing a word out of his mouth.

With wily charm, Ms. Yai is pushing the Government to act, careful not to favor the aggressive prosecution of excisers or offending parents.