appealingness

It's about visual contentment, appealingness for its own sake.

Before & after Pat 2005

It's about visual contentment, appealingness for its own sake.

Archive 2005-11-01 Pat 2005

Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

It was opened by Christine, who had, perhaps, bathed her face, for the traces of tears were almost gone, though enough remained to give her eyes an appealingness that went to his very heart.

A Beautiful Alien Julia Magruder 1880

It was not vanity -- it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain appealingness in her behavior toward him; and the difficulty with which she had seemed to raise her eyes to bow to him, in the first instance, was to be interpreted now by that unmistakable look of involuntary confidence which she had afterward turned on him under the consciousness of his approach.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849