1A noteworthy special talent or quality.
‘there are plenty of luxury cars around, but the S-Type has that special X factor’
- ‘Mark said: " They do have to have the X factor, which is really hard to define.’
- ‘Hugh Grant lacks the X factor in a disappointing satire.’
- ‘It's exactly the sort of situation where Madsen's energetic X factor might have provided a crucial boost.’
- ‘The judges claimed he had the X factor.’
- ‘Certain performers have the X factor on lockdown.’
- ‘And there are no rules, or at least no accountable ones: you either have the X factor or you don't.’
- ‘According to advertising sources, Wood has the industry's much sought after " X factor ".’
- ‘His main problem is deciding whether individual paintings have that X factor that makes them work.’
- ‘Gareth is immensely talented and has the X factor by the bucketful.’
- ‘Charisma and the X factor is hard to find.’
- ‘You can tell almost as soon as you go into the school whether it has the x factor or not!’
- ‘They played hard, they made mistakes, but they were missing the X factor that makes championship teams.’
- ‘There are plenty of luxury cars around today, but the S-Type has that special X factor.’
- ‘"He's got the X factor, hasn't he?"’
- ‘Sligo has got the X factor.’
- ‘Has your bus driver got the X factor?’
- ‘We can rule just about all of those out because, although they may be fine pictures, there is no X factor to make them special.’
- ‘X-Men 2 is mad but madly enjoyable Hollywood blockbuster cinema with enough dark moments about destiny and natural order to give it the X factor.’
- ‘But has the struggling PM got the political X factor?’
- ‘As for Gillian Anderson, she has the X factor.’