charm offensive

noun

1. a concentrated attempt to gain favour or respectability by conspicuously cooperative or obliging behaviour

Example Sentences

Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.

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And when John Swinney took over from Yousaf, he was keen to make the government far more business-friendly - bringing Kate Forbes back into the fold to front a charm offensive.

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In recent weeks, both sides engaged in a charm offensive to sway shareholders, hashing out their opposing arguments publicly and conveying confidence that their clashing views would prevail.

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The company’s executives went on a charm offensive last year.

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Bellamy was on something of a charm offensive when he faced the media before this fixture.

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