Van Wagenen, a smooth-talking agent who has become a smooth-talking general manager, smiled genially.
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One boyfriend's smooth talking helped her get her first car.
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As the smooth-talking Toby, Sullivan is a delightful onscreen presence.
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Later, Pablo was picked up by a smooth-talking female recruiter.
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Sometimes, Trump's smooth-talking sidekick has even doubled down with him.
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Brey, a smooth-talking smiler, rarely loses his cool during games.
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Being the amiable, smooth-talking Hoosier is very easy for him.
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Luke agrees, but holds the smooth-talking criminal accountable for Pop's murder.
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It's going to take money, creativity, and a lot of smooth talking.
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The authentic human versus the slick, smooth-talking devil with laughing eyes.
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Smooth-talking and extremely well-rewarded advisers can usually assuage any doubts.
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The smooth-talking presidents we've had recently - they certainly didn't get anything done.
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Risks of this practice are cloaked in smooth-talking rationales to satisfy agendas beyond professionals' control.
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During this short time, expect to see a surge in quick-thinking, multi-tasking, and smooth-talking.
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What's exciting is that she's evenly matched with Burke, who, as Anthony, is a smooth-talking nightmare.
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ESTATE agents in China, as elsewhere in the world, are normally a smooth-talking, self-assured bunch.
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Second, Mr. Cruz, the smooth-talking, polished debater, is at the core just another double-talking politician.
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Mr Warsh is a smooth-talking politician who may lack the intellectual firepower of past Fed chairs.
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All that money seems to be bringing with it a new kind of smooth-talking salesman: pharmaceutical reps.
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This is occurring in an environment that has brought us smooth-talking demagogues exploiting people's fears and prejudices.
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But a greedy, smooth-talking therapist called Haber gets George to fix the universe according to Haber's plans.
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All the while, the affable, smooth-talking Mr. Hall gave no hint of where the treasure might lie.
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Solo also meets his future co-pilot, Chewbacca, and gambles with the smooth-talking Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).
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This week the plan was to explore how he resembles a smooth-talking manipulator in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
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And somehow smooth-talking Tom James — who becomes more dubious by the day — is giving all the worst advice.
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I may not be as good-looking, I may not be as smooth-talking, but I know the issues.
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Julia Klöckner, for instance, the next agriculture minister, is a smooth-talking CDU loyalist from southern Germany's wine country.
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Reynolds' character is smooth-talking and fun-loving, just trying to serve his time and get out of prison.
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Friends and enemies alike describe Corbally as impeccably dressed, smooth talking, and smelling wonderfully of cigars and Paco Rabanne cologne.
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" Kelly told Vanity Fair in the magazine's December cover story that, despite The Donald's smooth talking, she "can't be wooed.
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Smooth-talking Mercury, in gentle Libra, will assist you in winning over anyone, especially at work or in public spaces.
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This is the smooth-talking pimp mode Wayne would get into every now and then, and it didn't really resonate.
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Normally smooth-talking designers and retail execs, with their perfect coifs and vicuna-trimmed rolodexes, were left stumbling for words.
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Since Maggie needs help investigating this new threat, her adopted grandfather suggests she work with his smooth-talking grandson Kai.
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As we continued to chat, he came across, conflictingly, as both a sincere animal lover and a slick, smooth-talking operator.
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Technically speaking, the smooth-talking, fabulously bald star of the Hitman series is as lethal as you want him to be.
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His voice, a gravelly, soul-filled rasp, allows him to transform from quick-witted rapper into smooth-talking Lothario with ease.
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Analee starts to face her anxiety head on when she's partnered with Seb, a smooth-talking soccer star, on a science project.
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And Katja Jung provides many of the trial's most gripping moments as a charismatic and smooth-talking Thomas Danforth, the head judge.
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Zahavi was suave and smooth-talking, and had parlayed a career as a soccer journalist in Israel into being a transfer broker.
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They're not in Kansas anymore, however, and, predictably, they all soon forget the debt they owe their smooth-talking benefactor, with unfortunate results.
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The film also marks the return of "Jurassic Park" star Jeff Goldblum , who is reprising his role as the smooth-talking mathematician Ian Malcolm.
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At the bar that night, Mary Jane pulls out her best smooth talking and admits to him that she's ready to go all in.
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We know that our credibility is shot the moment full disclosure is given—often making one a prime target for a smooth-talking pimp.
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She is not easily wooed by Ayanna's (Michael Michele) smooth talking and is clearly aware of the courting ritual she's part of with the label.
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The legendary California rapper plays the smooth-talking informant Huggy Bear, who finds himself helping his detective friends in a sting on a golf course.
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But an article published today by Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker indicates that despite all his on-camera smooth-talking, in reality he's overly aggressive.
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Played by Donald Glover, the smooth-talking Lando charms his way around the galaxy, making deals, playing Star Wars poker analog sabacc, and kissing women's hands.
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From 1962 to 1969, Mr. Moore was Simon Templar, the title character of "The Saint," a wildly popular British series about an adventurous, smooth-talking thief.
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President Donald Trump just hired smooth-talking, well-liked former hedge fund executive Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci to take control of a dysfunctional White House communications operation.
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As portrayed by Spacey, Ron is smooth-talking and flamboyant, splurging money he doesn't have on brightly colored tailored suits, a Rolls-Royce and his dog.
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What awaited me was not an array of smooth talking politicians in Mad Men suits, eloquently arguing the case of whichever side had paid them more.
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Back in 1960, when the Kennedy-Nixon debates first aired, the campaigns didn't trot out any smooth-talking spokesmen afterward to explain why their man had won.
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Babyfather, Dean Blunt's political brainchild, has repurposed an ethereal moment from "Wuthering Heights"—British pop-outsider Kate Bush's most famous song—into a smooth-talking rap ballad.
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When I told him that, in fact, he'd been an engineer before he died, the actor — a smooth-talking charmer — stumbled over his words and stuttered multiple apologies.
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Gregor Gysi, a witty, smooth-talking lawyer who, despite being a party member, made his name defending the regime's dissident opponents in court, is the evening's main draw.
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Shards of glassy harmonics evoked the flight of birds; the vocal writing captured both the sturdy insistence of the king's mother and Dimna's smooth-talking, favor-currying hypocrisy.
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McBride), a Southerner obsessed with proving his manhood, and Lee Russell (Walton Goggins), a possibly closeted, smooth-talking dandy — who team up to take down their new principal.
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In the orbit of MacMillan is visionary engineer Gordon Clark and his smarter wife Donna, smooth talking Texas business executive John Bosworth, and a genius coder Cameron Howe.
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Like Spencer, with whom he co-edits a fringe right-wing website, Friberg is a clean-cut, smooth-talking far-right activist who describes himself as an identitarian.
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Instead, the then-college freshman and first-time investor chased down an obscure penny stock broker, where a smooth-talking salesman sold Escamilla about $2,103 worth of stock.
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Like the smooth-talking movement leaders in Imperium, Patrick Stewart's Darcy, a soft-spoken guy who dresses like a substitute teacher, is venerated by the "true believer" foot soldiers.
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Mr Hackett will leave the job of managing external relations to the smooth-talking Bill Ford, the company's chairman and a member of the family that still controls the carmaker.
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The protagonist obligingly infiltrated a seedy area called the Jungle with telekinesis and smooth talking, convincing some drug dealers that they were a pharmaceutical salesman looking to make a deal.
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NBC has announced that Matt Bomer, 40, will act in an episode as "a smooth-talking, self-satisfied TV news anchor," who is a love interest for Eric McCormack's Will.
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The smooth-talking male predator in this new one, "Big Momma," keeps a very large metaphor as a house pet: the title character is a 20-foot-long reticulated python.
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It's especially distressing since we know that the smooth-talking Tom and the venom-spewing Andrew are not necessarily as "on-point" behind the scenes as they seem on television.
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Legendary Man, as he is called, is a smooth-talking European daredevil who's sort of a cross between Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World and a melodramatic Nike commercial.
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In its first season, this series found Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a smooth-talking businessman, and Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a failed engineer, conspiring to bring an IBM clone to market.
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Whether you're a shill at a vaudeville revue hired to clap for a specific act or a smooth-talking DJ grown flush with ill-gotten coin, the song remains the same.
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Mostly, it solidifies Albert as an heir to that 19th-century American archetype, the confidence man, the smooth-talking dissembler who takes advantage of the credulous to sell faith, politics, whatever.
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" Mr. Omar said that if the head of the Sweden Democrats, the smooth-talking Jimmie Akesson, "does something stupid, it will not just be the Somalis who suffer, but the whole country.
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He may have only a razor-thin chance of winning in June, but Mr Corbyn wears his facial hair with pride, a counter-cultural badge of defiance against smooth-talking, smooth-faced capitalists.
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One of the many reasons that Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey as a smooth talking gold hustler, doesn't work is that it never stops to consider that its main character might be a jackass.
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Michel Barnier, the smooth-talking, silver-haired French politician who has been appointed to run a Brexit task force inside the European Commission, may not look like a man spoiling for a battle.
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Ignoring her best friend, Tiger Lily (Shoba Narayan), who warns "Do not do the stupid thing/ Don't fall for the pirate," Tink develops a crush on the smooth-talking James and leaves home.
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Her sparring matches with the owner's rep (a smooth-talking, jet-setting Kyle MacLachlan) feel like what I imagine a good poker game is like, if I was ever able to learn the rules.
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Murphy plays Rudy Ray Moore, the entertainer who rose to fame in the 1970s after he created a character called Dolemite, a smooth-talking pimp who talks in rhyme and brags of his exploits.
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Photo by Marielle Stobie Noisey's favorite smooth-talking devil man, King Dude, has teamed up with director Daniel Garcia to score a new short film, and we're stoked to give it its worldwide debut.
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The post-2004 consensus was that Democrats had to reconnect with the white working class — they should nominate a culturally conservative populist, like Montana's Brian Schweitzer, or a smooth-talking Southerner, like John Edwards.
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Telegenic and smooth-talking, he was an eager face of the Trump campaign on television and in the halls of Trump Tower, bringing a brash style and disarming humor to his tussles with reporters.
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Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a mysterious, smooth-talking drifter of a businessman, was paired with Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a brilliant but failed engineer, in a sketchy scheme to bring an IBM clone to market.
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Despite being wooed by a smooth-talking immortal bad boy, Luce (Addison Timlin) is drawn to another admirer, an angel (Jeremy Irvine) who is destined to love her and her alone through all of eternity.
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That title sounds more respectable than the traditional grand wizard, and Sergeant Trapp (Ken Garito), who supervises the department's undercover unit, insists that the smooth-talking, telegenic Duke has his sights set on the political mainstream.
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After briefly venturing into work behind the camera with his 2002 directorial debut "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," George Clooney returned to his role as Danny Ocean, the smooth-talking criminal mastermind behind the group's heists.
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The two families went on the run together, accumulating a few other characters along the way — notably the smooth-talking Strand (Colman Domingo) — but the core of the series was always the Clark-Manawa family unit.
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Lord was a smooth-talking businessman and an integral part in the formation of the Justice League International, but was later killed by Wonder Woman after an attempt to take over the world, according to Comic Vine.
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John Henry Browne, Bundy's lawyer in the '70s and early '80s, tells TMZ ... Efron's background as a charming heartthrob gives him an edge tapping into Bundy's persona -- the smooth talking, good looking guy who seduced young women.
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Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York The smooth-talking Mr. Jeffries, a corporate lawyer before he entered politics, is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, which means he is responsible for developing and articulating the party's message.
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Once swallowed, the Squip implants itself in the user's brain, manifesting itself as visions of a smooth-talking, Keanu Reeves-looking guide who can tell the user exactly what he needs to do in order to become popular.
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Two years ago, James Comey, who was appointed FBI Director after Mueller left the post, was a smooth-talking showman who sparred back and forth with lawmakers and used the platform to question Trump's fitness to be president.
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You have been a smooth-talking flirt since mid-February, Scorpio, and your powers of persuasion are running high through mid-April, thanks to messenger Mercury's meeting with nebulous Neptune in your house of pleasure, friendships, and creativity.
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Such comments, which mirror accusations Riyadh makes about Iran, infuriate Saudi officials who regard Rouhani as a smooth-talking cipher for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and see no point engaging with him instead of his harder line superior.
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The smooth-talking former insurance executive was initially seen by many as a welcome break from his predecessor Brady Dougan, a U.S. investment banker who had fallen out of favor with the Swiss public towards the end of his tenure.
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Billy Dee Williams, last seen in the "Star Wars" franchise in "Episode VI — Return of the Jedi," is also confirmed to reprise his role as Lando Calrissian, the smooth-talking former smuggler who used to own the starship Millennium Falcon.
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The latest turn in the geek culture wars is upon us — and upending years of Star Wars fandom precedent in the process — thanks to the fact that smooth-talking schemer Lando Calrissian is clearly just too hot for one gender.
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In an interview with Los Angeles news station KTLA 5, actor Jason Lewis — you may remember him as Samantha's smooth-talking actor boyfriend, Smith Jerrod, on Sex and the City — seemed to announced his allegiance to Parker by piling on the praise.
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As far as Iranian behavior is concerned, we should always look at how the regime allocates its scarce financial reserves – rather than listen to what its smooth-talking diplomats say to foreign audiences – if we wish to better understand Iran's priorities and objectives.
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Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier whom President Donald Trump appointed White House communications director on Friday, is considered a polished, smooth-talking antidote to former press secretary Sean Spicer, whose brief tenure with the administration was marked by verbal stumbles and outright gaffes.
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In 2014 Bob McDonnell, a former governor of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of trading their office for $177,000 in sweetheart loans, gifts and trips from a smooth-talking executive who wanted the state to promote his disputed tobacco-derived dietary product.
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And trying to appeal to both the party establishment and the conservative base makes him a bigger target for his rivals, taking fire from the likes of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Cruz, all of whom characterize Rubio as a smooth-talking senator of little substance.
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Mr. Goggins takes his slightly surreal intensity — simultaneously feral and blissed-out — and applies it to a kind of wacko different from what he's played before, a possibly closeted, smooth-talking dandy (his plaid bow ties deserve their own credit) with deep reserves of rage and perversity.
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For the first decade of his rule, though, Mr. al-Bashir, was seen as a frontman for a more powerful force — the cleric Hassan al-Turabi, a smooth-talking, Sorbonne-educated ideologue with sweeping ideas about embedding Shariah law deep in Sudan's diverse society and institutions.
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In Halt and Catch Fire, AMC's brilliant ode to the early days of the internet, smooth-talking Silicon Valley entrepreneur Joe McMillan was prone to giving long, starry-eyed monologues about the connection and community he believed the internet would offer, from his vantage point in the '80s.
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As the war grinds pointlessly on, and she and her family languish in materially deprived boredom, she is singled out by a smooth-talking figure named Gaines, who hires her to deliver money to rebel militiamen operating outside the purview of the Army of the Free Southern State.
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Bettors nonetheless fancied the well-funded Jeb Bush and smooth-talking Marco Rubio for most of the lead-up to the primaries despite their lacklustre poll numbers, wrongly presuming that Mr Trump's polling figures were bound to deflate just like those of the 2012 outsider candidates Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich.
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In reality, O.J. Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran was many things at once, wrapped up in one immaculately tailored package: a smooth-talking litigator, crusading redeemer of racial injustice, fiery orator sermonizing to juries, master media manipulator, and down-and-dirty legal brawler who'd stop at next to nothing in service of his client.
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The actor Billy Dee Williams has been the very embodiment of cool charisma for decades — in real life and as the smooth-talking, cape-wearing smuggler Lando Calrissian in the "Star Wars" universe (a role he's reprising for the first time since 1983 in the upcoming "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker").
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These taut, violent dramas couldn't have felt more removed from the black elite advertising world of "Boomerang" and its inhabitants: the smooth-talking, tuxedo-wearing executive Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy); his friends, Gerard (David Alan Grier) and Tyler (Martin Lawrence); and his colleagues and love interests, Jacqueline (Robin Givens) and Angela (Halle Berry).
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The Council chair will play a crucial role, among other things, in Britain's negotiations to exit the EU. Tusk, a smooth-talking centrist, has wide backing among EU leaders for a second term except from his own country, where the Law and Justice party (PiS) of his arch-rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski now holds power.
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The dyspeptic and unambitious Nick (Jake Johnson), the smooth-talking would-be Lothario Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and the walking non-sequitur Winston (Lamorne Morris) formed a great comedy trio, and Deschanel had fun chemistry with all of them — though her romantic chemistry with Johnson became the engine that fueled the show's second (and best) season.
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The president, according to a dozen people familiar with the situation, meant to upgrade, not overhaul, his existing staff with the addition of a smooth-talking, Long Island-bred former hedge fund manager who is currently the senior vice president and chief strategy officer at the Export-Import Bank, which he joined just last month.
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With an estimated attendance of 2200,21 people spread out over six worship services (four in English and two in Spanish), Lakewood is one of the largest churches in the US. Osteen, its leader, is the smooth-talking best-selling author of books like Your Best Life Now and the host, with his wife Victoria, of a Sirius radio channel.
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In "Yes Minister," which ran from 21992 to 1984, audiences delighted in the weekly predicaments faced by the Right Honorable James Hacker (Paul Eddington), the well-meaning head of the fictional Ministry for Administrative Affairs; his wily, smooth-talking permanent under secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne); and Sir Humphrey's whipsawed private secretary, Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds).
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The vendor, and narrator, an Oakland marketing expert named Fiona Dunn, is witty enough to realize that the transaction she has made represents "just such a medieval idea," but she's also genuinely frantic to find a means of getting out of the deal, made during a drunken hookup with a smooth-talking guy who calls himself Scratch.
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In 1995, as Vera, the sometime girlfriend of a smooth-talking forties musician, in Wilson's "Seven Guitars," Davis was alternately shy, sassy, and saturnine; in 2001, as Tonya, the wife of an ex-con who strives to live by his own moral code, in "King Hedley II"—a performance for which Davis won her first Tony Award—she was fierce, heartbroken, and shipwrecked.
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The startup's founder and CEO, American-born Roland Lamb, is probably best described as a polymath, someone who comes across less as a geeky and nervous or (at the other end) ultra-smooth-talking startup founder, and more like a calm-voiced thinker who has come out to talk to you in a break between reading and writing about the nature of music and teaching a small philosophy seminar.
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That closing, it turns out, was temporary: Here "Chicago" is again, this time at the Phoenix Theater and with a newfound celebrity draw in the Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (He and his fellow principals are contracted through June 30, with subsequent casting to be announced.) A relative theatrical neophyte with only one Broadway credit, Mr. Gooding might seem tailor-made for the assignment as the smooth-talking, press-savvy lawyer Billy Flynn.
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If you're not familiar with Be More Chill, you're likely not alone: the show first debuted to little fanfare as a regional production in 2015 that adapted Vizzini's young adult novel about Jeremy Heere, an unpopular high school student who takes a pill containing a "SQUIP" (Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor, which manifests as a smooth-talking, advice-dispensing devil on Jeremy's shoulder) in a bid to be more accepted at school.
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There is nothing in Aymeric that captures the amorphous mix of the unemployed, semi-employed, caregivers, pensioners, youth, and small entrepreneurs who characterize the gilets jaunes movement, and whose loathing is directed not just at the bureaucracy but at a globalized, urban French elite, a capitalist-technocratic class exemplified for them by Bernard Arnault, billionaire owner of Louis Vuitton and assorted Veblen goods, as well as the smooth-talking banker-turned-president Emmanuel Macron.
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It might have been when L3-37 (Phoebe Waller Bridge), a bowlegged female droid with a plummy British accent, started lecturing a fellow robot about droid rights and sentience; or when a card-playing, smooth-talking Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) purred that "everything you've heard about me is true"; or, most likely, when Han (Alden Ehrenreich) walks in on love interest Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) modeling one of Lando's many colorful silk capes in a Millennium Falcon closet.
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