The phrase "far from handsome" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that someone or something is not handsome. For example: "The model walking down the runway was far from handsome."
Mr. Suter is far from handsome — he is too thin, and his face is badly pocked, so that at first she took him for an old fellow.
Mr Ginsberg was their outrageous Byron, although far from handsome and in love with men rather than women".Coming out", green politics, feminism, trash fashion and much else that today hardly raises an eyebrow, made its bow in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Page C1 VENERATING A SACRED BOOK Not far from the handsome Great Hall at the Folger Shakespeare Library where a fascinating exhibition is on display, there is a wall on which more than 70 volumes lie on shelves.
WASHINGTON — Underground, not far from the handsome Great Hall at the Folger Shakespeare Library where a fascinating exhibition is on display, just beyond the institution's reading rooms, down its back stairs and through a vault door that seems far more imposing than the "rocks impregnable" Shakespeare invoked in a sonnet, there is a wall on which more than 70 volumes lie flat on mounted shelves.
— not so far from Ismay — when a handsome young man who called himself Tell Gray laid an item on the counter.
Season one's theme song was the languorous alt-country tune Far from any Road by the Handsome Family, and the first True Detective trailer used an equally atmospheric song by country musician Lera Lynn, which has already been enthusiastically remixed on YouTube.
From the opening theme, the Handsome Family's "Far From Any Road," to the end of each episode, the selections dot the hour with melodic comments, augmenting the drama with new layers of grit.
Vignettes and sillouhettes from all six Star Wars are presented in Australian animator Raoul Marks' stylized double exposure technique from the actual Season 2 credits, while the recognizable growl of The Handsome Family's "Far From Any Road" plays in the background.
Vignettes and sillouhettes from all six Star Wars are presented in Australian animator Raoul Marks' stylised double exposure technique from the actual Season 2 credits, while the recognisable growl of The Handsome Family's "Far From Any Road" plays in the background.
Unknown to the Garnseys — and probably most New Yorkers — there is a handsome bear specimen not far from Wall Street, in the Alfred E. Smith Playground at Catherine and Monroe Streets.
The first one came out far too handsome.
