Sentence examples for inviting as a from inspiring English sources

The martinis are as inviting as a lake at the end of a windless summer day.

You go because it's as familiar and inviting as a rusty swing set.

I've only recently been to the refurbished Whitworth and I was in awe of the building: it feels really inviting as a space.

The size of a police cell, clad in a dark oakwood panelling that had been saturated with more than 120 years of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and tears, Alt Berlin was as inviting as a walk-in ashtray.

Put more bluntly, the 611 trains and 2,065 buses that crisscross the Garden State are little more than steel-sided boxes on wheels, adequately comfortable but as inviting as a junior high school cafeteria.

BOOKS lead about a new biography of Proust, "Marcel Proust: A Life Yalele; $35) by William C. Carter... Proust remains as light and inviting as a feather bed, a nearly infinite mass of prose gently sighing up and down, like a calm sea glinting with myriad coins of moonlight.

A spacious open kitchen is inviting, as is a library nook with floor-to-ceiling shelves.

And in an apparently symbolic gesture the royal throne is made to look about as inviting as an electric chair.

The words "M83 OK Pal" look about as inviting as the back of a VCR player, but there's a richness of texture, ambition and electronic dreaming here, enough to make a pinball table waggle its flippers with feeling.

Crumpled and shrunken, Mr. Reyes's scratchy gray wool coats looked about as sexually inviting as rubbing up to a cactus.

But, in fact, the beach scene near São Paulo can be just as inviting as Rio's -- if a little harder to get to -- and offers a glimpse of Brazilian life away from the country's chaotic urban centers.