unhandsome

Alec is self-conscious about his scarring, but if the show wanted to make Martin appear unhandsome, which he pushed for, it should have tried harder.

Or if there was, it isn’t the story that Frank Loesser tells in his 1956 musical “The Most Happy Fella,” about the romance between the unhandsome middle-aged Tony and the waitress Rosabella.

Later, the handsome but inarticulate Christian will enlist the supposedly unhandsome but eloquent Cyrano to woo Roxanne from afar, in a plot of unrequited love, unspoken desire and ego-driven self-deceit that has lasted through the ages.

I say “supposedly unhandsome” because, although Dinklage’s Cyrano might be deemed sexually stymied by his dwarfism, it’s difficult to imagine anyone being immune to his smoldering appeal.

An American teacher in middle age arrives at an apartment to meet a man who is older, overweight, unhandsome, a brute.