What he lacks is the charisma of an Olivier, whose epochal Coriolanus is dazzlingly evoked in two pages of Kenneth Tynan's Curtains. |
It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma. |
Despite his reputation as a know-all, he had charisma and went on to become president of the students' union at Strathclyde. |
And I'm afraid that the new leader simply doesn't have the charisma to carry it off. |
While he has lost none of his charisma, the years of ridicule appear to have worn him down. |
He is undoubtedly the alpha male of the clan, whose charisma and anecdotes occupy much of the resulting taped interview. |