
She's absolute perfection.  The nose-ring is like the shreek of an ambulance siren in the middle of a Bach cantata.  A neon sign in Yosemite.  But you know, it's beyond metaphor and simile: it's a nose-ring on a beautiful woman.  If I were trying to describe why a neon sign in Yosemite is wrong I'd say, "it's like a nose-ring on a beautiful woman."