Asked how she ever got the idea of painting the tile, which is now an appealing although not immediately identifiable surface, she says simply, "I don't know anything about painting."

It has been, at various times in his career, tonal and immediately appealing, spiky and dense, eerily microtonal and built on clusters, and quirkily humorous.

Max isn't an immediately appealing character.

Of the two dozen or so current releases, quite a few are immediately appealing, and some grow on you, but virtually all are at least interesting.

But it was hard to begrudge him his bis; the concerto is an immediately appealing piece and hearing it again was not at all a chore.

Coming from Vancouver, Canada, Daniel Powter has created the kind of album that is immediately appealing and at the same time, draws listeners in on many different levels.

The power of description is one of the immediately appealing features of the poetry.

She has an air of simplicity and directness that are immediately appealing and that convey a sense of reality rather than impose theatricality.

Those people-skills are something Mr. Johnson has in abundance, and as a public speaker, he is immediately appealing and often funny.

The purely musical concern, of course, is finding and conveying the immediately appealing qualities of music that is both difficult and unfamiliar.