Writing with Stardust: The Ultimate Descriptive Guide for students, parents, teachers and writers (34 page)

                                              
SHAPE OF EYES

1. They were doe shaped and
the windows to his soul
.

2. They were saucer shaped and
the mirrors of his soul
.

3. They were opal round and
the pathways to his soul
.

4. They were lunar shaped and
the gateways to his soul
.

5. They were millpond round and
the portals to his soul
.

                                    
ARCHAIC WORDS FOR EYES

1. They were a-dazzle with wonder over
a friendly smile
.

2. They were a-flicker with curiosity over
a genial smile
.

3. They were a-glimmer with interest over
his affable smile
.

4. They were a-glow with love and he flashed me
an amiable smile
.

5. They were a-twinkle with the ‘joie de vivre’ and he graced me with
a jaunty smile
.

                                              
PERSONALITY

1. He had a dashing personality and
a cosmic smile
.

2. He had a devil-may-care outlook and
a stellar smile
.

3. He had a gregarious personality and
a galactic smile
.

4. He had a debonair character and
a celestial smile
.

5. He had a swashbuckling style and
an Arcadian smile
.

                                                          
VOICE

1. He had a booming voice, full of
vim
.

2. He had a trombone voice, full of
verve
.

3. He had a volcanic voice, loaded with
vigour
.

4. He had a voice like bottled thunder, a measure of his
vitality
.

5. He had a stentorian voice, a man who believed in ‘
Vi et armis’
. (
By force and arms
)

                                                      
CLOTHES

1. He wore snazzy clothes and his hair was
wind-tossed
.

2. He wore natty clothes and his hair was
wind-tumbled
.

3. He wore swanky clothes and his hair was
wind-tangled
.

4. He wore raffish clothes and his hair was
wind-tousled
.

5. He wore Miami Vice clothes and his hair was
wind-tempested
.

                                       
LEVEL 1: BASIC SENTENCES

1. He had
Viking-gold
hair.
HAIR

2. He had
bristly
eyebrows.
EYEBROWS

3. He had a
hawkish
nose.
NOSE

4. He had
defined
cheekbones.
CHEEKBONES

5. He had a
concrete
jaw.
JAW

6. He had a
Titan’s
shoulders.
SHOULDERS

7. He was
dishy
.
MASCULINITY

8. He moved with a
leopard-like grace
.
MOVEMENT

9. He had
sea rover-blue
eyes.
EYES

10. They were
almond shaped
.
SHAPE OF EYES

11. They were
a-fire with passion
.
ARCHAIC WORDS FOR EYES

12. He was
adventurous
.
PERSONALITY

13. He had a
deep
voice.
VOICE

14. He wore
ritzy
clothes.
CLOTHES

15. An
earthy scent
swirled around him.
SMELL

                                       LEVEL 2: A BASIC PARAGRAPH

He had a
Mohican cut
and
scythe-shaped eyebrows
. His
Roman nose
and
half-dome
cheekbones
sat above an
oaken jaw
. His
wrestler’s
shoulders
were part of his
burly physique
. He walked with
a tiger like tread
and his
nomad-blue
eyes
twinkled. They were
Saturn round
and were
a-flush
with triumph
after his job promotion. His
derring-do personality
and
bass voice
were a big part of his ambitious character. He always wore
nifty clothes
and his
spicy aroma
was appealing.

                                       
LEVEL 3: CREATIVE PARAGRAPHS

He was a male model and he was adored by the fairer sex for his
Teutonic-gold hair
. It was a casual jumble sometimes but mostly neat and flowing. His
crescent-of-moon eyebrows
were thin and narrow. He carried an
imperious nose
well and his
angular
cheekbones
carved down towards a
flinty jaw
. Unusually for a model, he had a
manly
,
Samson
physique. The catwalk loved the way he glided with
an athletic grace
without skipping a beat.

His
mariner-blue eyes
were
orb round
and darted constantly,
a-gleam
with delight
and the vigour of youth. They were soft, Irish eyes and swam with joy. They shone brightly, like two sapphires dipped in milky pools. Everyone commented on his
vivacious
character and his gentle nature. His voice could be
foghorn loud
when he was booming out a guffaw but it was normally mellifluous. His
gap year clothes
always made him appear younger than his years. The swirl of his loamy cologne had them swooning in the aisles.

                                       
LEVEL 4: ADVANCED PARAGRAPHS

He wasn’t a male model but he should have been. The lush,
mother lode-gold hair
he groomed so carefully had a rippling quality, a sign of his rude health. His only blemish was that he was
beetle-browed
and they sometimes knitted in frustration. The
aquiline nose
he sported complemented his
prominent cheekbones
.
Handsome
in an understated way, his
basalt jaw
and
Spartan
shoulders
spoke of strength. He possessed a latent,
leonine power
and always walked with purpose and authority.

People had always remarked that his best feature was his entrancing,
wayfarer-blue eyes
.
Sloe
shaped
, they could shine as bright as the evening stars when they were
a-light with joy
. At other times, they could resemble two liquid-blue pools of flashing fire.
Flamboyant of
character
, the room always filled with his sonorous,
rumbling voice
. He was also quick to crack a joke or fire off a humorous retort. His
rakish
clothes
were a source of amusement to some, not least because they emanated an herbal smell.

                   LEVEL 5: COMPLEX WRITING: DIFFERENT PEOPLE

A Brad Pitt look-alike:
The man I met at the wedding had a touch of the Brad Pitt about him. His hair was
Achilles-gold
and coiffed to perfection. His eyes had the same startling clarity as a mountain stream and the lineaments of his face were in perfect proportion to each other. He seemed moulded from a different cast as he had an androgynous look uncommon to most people. Lacquered and enamelled by the sun, he radiated energy and brio. His
mountain
peak cheekbones
appeared chiselled into shape by a master craftsman. They were of such sharp contours, it looked as if they were sculpted and pared to perfection. With eyes as bright and
spellbinding
as lode stars, they bewitched all those who fell under his steady gaze. They were
a-sparkle with mirth
and
shone like two eternity-blue jewels
enwrought in snow.

He had a fruity laugh and a
grit-and-gravy voice
. It alternated from strident to soothing depending on his whim. The trace of a southern drawl was in there also but the brogue itself was a gentle one and pleasing to the ear. He moved with
a feline grace
. It looked as if he was padding across the ground rather than walking. His
oval face
held a pleasant countenance and spoke of a gentle soul. When he flashed those sorcery-white, piano key teeth, he could melt hearts. Unusually, his eyebrows were
arched and seam-gold
, not the bristly, fire gazer black common to most men. He carried himself with a kingly air, a distinct mood of gravitas, although he could be
buccaneering and childlike
on occasion. His twee clothes bore this out. His eau-de-Cologne left a vapour trail of spice and cinnamon behind him when he walked.