handsomeness

Example Sentences

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Even better, he has used his beauty not to become a matinee idol but to unsettle and surprise us, portraying characters whose handsomeness is very much the point but not the whole story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

The actors surrounding Thatcher, meanwhile, are a cannily calibrated bunch of game pieces in motion, with Gage making solidly funny use of performative handsomeness, looks that just as easily morph into a worrying blankness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025

Kennedy drew a favorable contrast against Nixon with his characteristic handsomeness and eloquence.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

The actor Jake Lacy, whom I met for tacos on a recent weekday evening, has an All-American handsomeness that verges on caricature — brown hair, blue eyes, a chin so strong it must work out.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022

How glorious it was, to be so wanted, and by this man with the rakish metal band around his wrist and the cleft-chinned handsomeness of models in department store catalogues.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie