Carter saw the amazement on her face and seemed pleased by it because he grinned in that lopsided, endearing way of his.

He smiled as if she had amused him in some small, endearing way, but he wouldn't meet her eyes.

Finally, Rollins is confident in an endearing way.

Frustration made me snide, in that endearing way I had.

And in his peculiarly paranoid but rather endearing way, he gives an honest answer.

He was smiling at me in the most endearing way.

In an endearing way that ambushed me, she said, "Please."

Well, yes, but in the nicest, most endearing ways.

"Of course I am, dear," said the program in its humblest and most endearing way.