Definition of "personal appeal" [personal appeal]

• A personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The only one derived from his familiar mercantile network was John Swanwick, but he was named receiver for Pennsylvania only after Morris made a personal appeal to David Rittenhouse, the mathematician and ardent Constitutionalist who was then serving a term as state treasurer."
• "Not even a personal appeal from Annan himself, when he arrives in Colombo after visits to Jakarta and Aceh, can deter Kumaratunga."
• "Securing an interview with Lord Salisbury, to whom he had dedicated The Malakand Field Force, Churchill prompted Salisbury to make a personal appeal to Kitchener."