Goldenrain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata), also called pride-of-India, China tree, or varnish tree, flowering tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to East Asia and widely cultivated in temperate regions for its handsome foliage and curious bladderlike seedpods.
Handsome beyond reason, brilliant and curious, witty, charming, elegant, beloved, respected and admired by all who knew him, he was the analysts' analyst.
At each stop along the way he found beautiful doe-eyed boys and eager men who were curious about this handsome dandy.
But it also maintains a handsome Web site that invites the curious to download literature and join a chapter.
"He is the original Consul in the book," she wrote, "a curious kind of person — handsome, vigorous, drunk — with an aura of genius about him and a personal electricity almost dangerous, sense of demon-possessed".
Curious, given that the strikingly handsome figure he struck on his last three album covers has been more interesting than the music therein.
After all, Huyn's Windows Phone development chops are well-established by now: He's perhaps best known for whipping up an equally handsome Wikipedia app that won Microsoft's curious Next Big App contest a few months back.
You half-expect 007 to stop by for a game of baccarat or, now that he's officially bi-curious, to check out the handsome crowd.
He was slight and handsome, dark-eyed, wide-eyed, wide-nostrilled, looking curious and confounded, boyish.
Lorca was handsome and dark-haired, and walked with a curious, flat-footed gait that made him instantly recognizable in Granada, where he had grown up.
