handsomeness

Example Sentences

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Still, with his chest-hugging T-shirt and rugged handsomeness, Mr. Bernthal recalls John Travolta in his early prime rather than the sweaty, disheveled but endearing desperado memorably created by Mr. Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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