Sentence examples for calls handsome from inspiring English sources

AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES As the city bakes in midsummer heat and dampness, Swann's sale of vintage posters (Aug. 1) offers us images of cool relief: soothing breezes ("Hawaii Calls"), handsome men in cowboy hats and swimming trunks ("Death Valley, the Famous Winter Resort"), and pastel fishing boats on turquoise seas (an ad for tourism in Greece).

What society calls handsome in a man's physical appearance can give clues to genetic health: the symmetry of a square jaw, for instance, or a large build (in nearly every culture, women prefer men who are taller than they are).

Kitaru wasn't what you'd call handsome, but he was pleasant-looking enough.

Elle, a Las Vegas mother, has a 4-year-old daughter who likes to be called "Handsome Prince".

The room itself could be called handsome, in the sense that it looks expensive without being particularly attractive.

Maurizio Benini conducted and Bartlett Sher directed this "Great Performances at the Met" presentation, which Anthony Tommasini, writing in The New York Times, called handsome and insightful.

Finally, this was a Honda — not drab, gray and common, but in return-to-Capistrano form, a class leader that even the most cynical spotter might call handsome.

He wasn't what you'd call handsome, but you could see that he might be very attractive, depending on how you looked at him.

The complex 28-story tower rises from lower sections like the basalt monolith Shiprock in New Mexico, massive but brilliantly detailed, and called "handsome and adroit" by the hard-to-please Lewis Mumford in The New Yorker.

Though he wasn't what you would call handsome, he was tall and clean-cut, a good student who played on the soccer team, and she was powerfully attracted to him.

In the (not especially good) film The Place Beyond the Pines, Ryan Gosling plays a motorbike stunt rider called Handsome Luke who finds out he has fathered a child without knowing it.