On the canal side the sheer elevation aims for the robust-but-handsome quality of old wharf buildings, and slopes its flanks in response to the gables of existing structures.
As noted by nearly all the show's female characters, Spector is distractingly handsome, a quality that no doubt helped Dornan recently land the role of Christian Grey in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Written and directed by Nanouk Leopold, the film unspools with a handsome horizontal quality, its forms and feelings slowly rolled out, though the material never knows when to stop, vary or curve with intuition.
Wow – at least enough to pick up a handsome selection of Quality Street.
Comment is free, and a whole series of other expert architectural critics have commended Tschumi's building for exactly the opposite quality – "handsome", "unassuming", "minimalist", "unpretentious" – to what Jenkins detects.
As he left, he mock-whined, "I don't even get a free drink?" Ms. Wickert corralled Eric, she said, because he was "tall, dark and handsome," the three qualities most desired by female applicants in New York.
In case you aren't feeling too old to start your own patch of legumes, consider the American Horticultural Society's HOMEGROWN HARVEST: A Season-by-Season Guide to a Sustainable Kitchen Garden (Mitchell Beazley, paper, $19.99), which manages the neat trick of being both handsome and handy — qualities as useful in a book as in a fellow gardener.
Women are attracted to men who are tall, dark and handsome because these qualities suggest virility, strength and the ability to protect a family.
In a 1958 advertisement in Galaxy for complete sets of the magazine for $3.50, the publisher described Beyond as "a princely experiment to determine whether there were enough readers to support a truly handsome, fantastically high-quality fantasy fiction magazine.
