blarney
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The man known for his charm and Irish blarney — a gift for the gab — was an ardent advocate of stronger U.S.-Canadian relations.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
With his Gaelic good looks, charisma and Irish blarney, he set up a music club, the Scene, in London’s Soho district.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2020
With his penchant for poetry and blarney, the former vice president has emerged as a sort of national eulogist in chief.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
“You are right to laugh, Captain Short. For a while there, I did believe in all that under-the-rainbow crock-of-gold blarney, but now I know better. Now I know about the hostage fund.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential assistant, and who blarneyed Nixon into endorsing the idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
No creature like the one that blarneyed Mother Eve could be here!
From Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster
Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State Department out of a consulate.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Then I thanked her, and blarneyed her as well as I was able, although that wasn't much, as I never have been much of a hand with women.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Ah, now, my dear; it isn’t blarneying at all!” laughed Wyn.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe
And Mrs. Lascelles gets off and goes to discoursin' and blarneying wid 'em: and Oi sees Mr. Forsyth glancin' round and lookin' oneasy.
From Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte
"A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
“Mistress Lyon,” he said indolently, but with the soft, well-anointed utterance of the blarneying islander, which does not die away till the third generation of the poorest exile from Erin, “now, misthress dear, consider!”
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
