English needs fewer: snow is handsome, sometimes inconvenient but equally fun, and it's our endlessly variable weather, after all, that helps to make us British.
In a relatively short career in design, Ms. Gallo became known for handsome, sometimes luminously pretty costumes that allowed the body to move and captured the often intangible qualities of Mr. Cunningham's dances without intruding on the choreography itself.
What normal guy would not be intimidated by most of their handsome, rich, sometimes sensitive dates?
It went against a common enough instinct, perhaps particularly British, which likes to see handsome or sometimes merely interesting industrial objects preserved.
A 22-year-old art director on the Lower East Side told me of a recent scare he had after he took home a handsome but sometimes homeless man he met at a bar.
In 1721, the sixteen-year-old Franklin, who would help topple the Puritan theocracy and change the course of American letters forever, by making our books better, introduced himself to the world: I am courteous and affable, good humour'd (unless I am first provok'd,) and handsome, and sometimes witty, but always, Sir, Your Friend and Humble Servant, SILENCE DOGOOD.
But in stories like "The Treasure Hunter's Daughter" -- in which Annie accompanies her handsome, moody, sometimes violent father on his searches through old dumps with metal detectors, only to discover the truth about his feelings toward her -- Ziegler's dry wit and facility with metaphor offer a visceral evocation of a not-so-sunny childhood.
Roger Ebert awarded the first part three out of four stars, praising the cast and calling it "a handsome and sometimes harrowing film... completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time".
They cause mortals to enact arbitrary contests (the Patriots versus the Dolphins what does that even mean?) for their own glory and diversion, offering, in return for those mortals' health and safety, sometimes handsome rewards and sometimes nothing.
Ralf Lukas, a guest singer from Berlin, was a lyrical, handsome and only sometimes forced Dutchman, a role that in a bigger house would lie beyond his reach.
The critics are thrilled ("Intelligent, witty, wry") and her handsome publisher, who sometimes wears specs for gravitas, is ditto ("Brilliant, intelligent, insightful").
