See Also:BEAUTY, DESIRABILITY, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

1. Adorable as a baby —Anon

   Babies have long been linked with adjectives that equate appealing (or peaceful) qualities. This commonly used form may have its origins in Swinburne’s “Adorable as is nothing save a child.”

2. Alluring as a ripe peach —Guy de Maupassant
3. Appealing as power to a politician —Anon
4. Appealing as something for nothing —Anon
5. Appealing as sunlight after a storm —Anon
6. An appeal shone from her as light from a twisted filament —John Updike
7. As likable as a jaguar —William Beechcroft
8. Charm is almost as poor a butter for parsnips as good intentions —Heywood Broun
9. Charm rolled off him like a halo off an angel —James Kirkwood

   In the television movie adaptation of Kirkwood’s There Must Be a Pony the character played by Elizabeth Taylor uses this simile to characterize the man played by Robert Wagner.

10. Cute as a bug’s ear —Bobbie Ann Mason
11. Dazzle like an impressionistic painting in which every brush stroke tells and contains something germane to the whole —V. S. Pritchett on George Meredith
12. Decorative as the scalps of an Indian brave —Frank Swinnerton
13. (The novel is often as) disarming as a work of folk art —Bethami Probst, New York Times Book Review, April 12, 1987
14. Have all the charm of a black widow —Pia Lindstrom, television movie review, 1986
15. Interesting, like a plot in the mystery books —Louise Erdrich
16. Inviting as a down comforter —Anon
17. Look like something that ought to be eaten for dessert —Irwin Shaw
18. More alluring than an invitation to visit rich and charming friends on the Côte d’Or —Ogden Nash
19. Seductive as Cleopatra —Louis Bromfield
20. She’s like a mound of nectarines —Saul Bellow
21. Unappealing as a meringue with hardly any crust —Anon