Her exhibition doesn't have to persuade anybody, for it is immediately likable.

Like many of his characters, Saul and Patsy are immediately likable and seemingly unexceptional.

It did worse than the first book, a fact Franzen chalks up to "a not immediately likable main character, a bad jacket and second-novel backlash."

As always, his humans are immediately likable or detestable, as his strong plotting directs them.

"New Moon" is one of Mr. Hawkins's strangest dances, more compelling than immediately likable.

He is 25, immediately likable, though a little slick.

He was an immediately likable person, soft-spoken and with a quiet, bubbling sense of humor that seemed right below the surface, ready to break out at the slightest opportunity.

These numbers are exuberant, direct and immediately likable, and they've turned a group of hard-working but only moderately gifted performers into stars.

Zaelke - an eloquent and immediately likable American with a background in international environmental law - wants to see the same concept applied to domestic barbecues.

Bellevues is immediately likable for its ingenousness in attitude and decor.