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X-appeal:
1. An abbreviated form of sex-appeal . See sex-appeal for synonyms. 2. Camp word for masculine sex-appeal .
SYNONYMS: beefcake ; masculine-quotient ; MQ .
QUOTES:
(1) Reporter Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ' Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam .'
(2) Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ' He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can't be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle .'
See Also: makings, the, sex stuff, sex voltage, sexiness, sextraction, S.A., SAM, that certain something, this and that, thisa and thata, thata, what it takes, mmph, myeh, nyeh, old stuff, the, it and that, It-ness, ittishness, have it in a big way, ittiness, es-ay, get together principle, the, have a lot of what s/he's got, have plenty of snap in her garter, have plenty of this and that, have plenty of what s/he's got, it and more, carry a lot of heat, carry plenty of heat, erotic charm, turn it on, socks appeal, pulchritude, masculine quotient, yumph, umph, itty, have it in large gobs, have it in large helpings, barbecue, sex appealitty, sex bunny, spark, sparker, squaw man, X-appeal, MQ, ittish, beefcake, dissa and datta, It girl, oomph, these and those, steamy, that thing, sizzle, sex apple, pull, runcible, beefcakes, sex appealing, sexually appealing, cheesecake, come on, sexed, sex symbol, Sheba, Sheik, sexual icon, sex goddess, sex icon, sizzler, turn on the heat, dermacentric, has-been,
Quotes Containing X-appeal:
Sophia Loren: ''Sex appeal is 50% what you''ve got and 50% what people think you''ve got.''
Sophia Loren: ''Sex appeal is 50% what you''ve got and 50% what people think you''ve got.''
Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ''Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.''
Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ''Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.''
Reporter Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ''Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.''
Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking of Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ''He''s too beautiful. He''s too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can''t be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.''
''He''s too beautiful. He''s too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can''t be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.'' Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989)
Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) to Rose Schwartz (Whoopi Goldberg) in Soapdish (1991): - Celeste: ''Adam went home to his wife ... He went home to Pittsburgh.'' - Rose: ''Dirty town.'' - Celeste: ''Pittsburgh! Does that tell you anything about my appeal?''
Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ''He''s too beautiful. He''s too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can''t be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.''
Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) to Rose Schwartz (Whoopi Goldberg) in Soapdish (1991): - Celeste: ''Adam went home to his wife ... He went home to Pittsburgh.'' - Rose: ''Dirty town.'' - Celeste: ''Pittsburgh! Does that tell you anything about my appeal?''
Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ''He''s too beautiful. He''s too much twisted steel and sex-appeal . I can''t be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''The most popular explanation for the link between fashion and eroticism, and rapid changes in styles, is the sex-appeal theory, also known as the theory of shifting erogenous-zones . Proponents of the theory argue that the primary purpose of all womens fashion is the desire to continually reattract the opposite-sex . The driving force behind seasonal changes in styles is to arouse men sated by last seasons "look" to turn-on to a new "look." In todays sexually liberated and sex-saturated times, fashion is driven by the seduction principle. With so much sexual imagery in the media, men get sated quickly, and women must work hard to reseduce them with styles that continually shift the erogenous zone from breasts to bellies to backs to legs to hair to lips . Men, for their part, positively yearn to be reseduced, over and over again. All of this seduction, says the theory, is to fulfill the biological imperative to continue the species, even if the sexes thwart conception at every chance they get .''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''Thanks to photography and film, Americans have created and worshiped more femme icons than all previous centuries combined. Each of our decades has produced several new images. For the most part, men dreamed up these images and named them, and women have worked hard to copy their shapes and costumes. If there is a single attribute that most of these modern images possess, its "sex-appeal " - a relatively new and daring term in English. American men have categorized their women by sexual types and nicknamed them with suggestively playful tags. In centuries past, where a virtue-vice dichotomy prevailed, women came in only two types: good or bad , whores or madonnas, mothers or mistresses. ''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''Thanks to photography and film, Americans have created and worshiped more femme icons than all previous centuries combined. Each of our decades has produced several new images. For the most part, men dreamed up these images and named them, and women have worked hard to copy their shapes and costumes. If there is a single attribute that most of these modern images possess, its "sex-appeal " - a relatively new and daring term in English. American men have categorized their women by sexual types and nicknamed them with suggestively playful tags. In centuries past, where a virtue-vice dichotomy prevailed, women came in only two types: good or bad , whores or madonnas, mothers or mistresses. ''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''Thanks to photography and film, Americans have created and worshiped more femme icons than all previous centuries combined. Each of our decades has produced several new images. For the most part, men dreamed up these images and named them, and women have worked hard to copy their shapes and costumes. If there is a single attribute that most of these modern images possess, its "sex-appeal " - a relatively new and daring term in English. American men have categorized their women by sexual types and nicknamed them with suggestively playful tags. In centuries past, where a virtue-vice dichotomy prevailed, women came in only two types: good or bad , whores or madonnas, mothers or mistresses. ''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''The most popular explanation for the link between fashion and eroticism, and rapid changes in styles, is the sex-appeal theory, also known as the theory of shifting erogenous-zones . Proponents of the theory argue that the primary purpose of all womens fashion is the desire to continually reattract the opposite-sex . The driving force behind seasonal changes in styles is to arouse men sated by last seasons "look" to turn-on to a new "look." In todays sexually liberated and sex-saturated times, fashion is driven by the seduction principle. With so much sexual imagery in the media, men get sated quickly, and women must work hard to reseduce them with styles that continually shift the erogenous zone from breasts to bellies to backs to legs to hair to lips . Men, for their part, positively yearn to be reseduced, over and over again. All of this seduction, says the theory, is to fulfill the biological imperative to continue the species, even if the sexes thwart conception at every chance they get .''
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