Under the surface charm, he is - to use your unscientific term - a prick.

But behind the ample surface charms here, it's always clear that these women are striving for a quiet dignity.

He'd even captured the contempt that lurked below the surface charm.

He is deeply misogynistic, but has no trouble attracting women because of his handsome face and surface charm.

Pastel-coloured and paper thin, they - like this -production - offer little but surface charm.

Because the signs had been there all the time if she'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm.

To appreciate the Coens, it is necessary to delight in their films' stylized, surface charms.

Douglas thought James was hollow, all surface charm, with nothing original in his head that hadn't been put there.

The book's serious intellectual ambitions are less obvious than its surface charms.

But those characters had considerable surface charm; emerging late in the story, their villainy was a punch line, and it came as a shock.