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

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

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

Unconventional George Emerson, a fellow Englishman about her age and her equal in glowing handsomeness, has spelled out on his plate an enormous question mark in peas and potatoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

His new show, the fact-based drama “A Friend of the Family,” uses that bland handsomeness as both camouflage and cudgel.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022

In the lights of the coaches’ office the agony showed, the handsomeness replaced by a weary sallowness, his eyes drawn tight and puffy from lack of sleep.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger