Howard is very smart, very analytical, but also self-deprecating, instantly likable.

He was 29, handsome, with unruly brown hair, hazel eyes and a nervous earnestness that was instantly likable.

"He's instantly likable, an all-American 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' type," she said.

I recognized him, then: that easygoing smile, the fashionably trimmed sandy hair, the clean features that made him instantly likable and trustworthy.

He is, improbably, an instantly likable man.

He also felt that the plot was well written, that the characters were instantly likable, and that the game had a "great comic book style."

Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine classified the song as "an effortlessness song that is instantly likable and effervescent".

The pickled flavoring of these stews will be unfamiliar to those used to Chinese hot pots or Vietnamese phos, but it is instantly likable.

Off stage, Ms. Barber is unexpectedly tall, precisely spoken, slightly shy and instantly likable, with a freckled map-of-Ireland face and a passion for good food.

Jevy was instantly likable.