Sentence examples for homely man from inspiring English sources

Arnold was a homely man, and one local view had it that his homeliness was what had driven him into the arms of men.

Charles Bukowski was a monstrously homely man because of a severe case of acne vulgaris when he was young.

Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a smug corporate headhunter, introduces himself in voice-over as all but a walking neurosis: a shorter-than-average, supposedly homely man who believes that he retains his statuesque wife only through luxurious upkeep.

This homely man seemed graced with none of the rustic frontier charm they had hoped for, the sort that had so endeared Monsieur Franklin to his Parisian hosts almost a century earlier.

How could Lucretia, on the brink of suicide, possibly envision that, two thousand years in the future, a small, homely man in a cold northern studio, himself destined for an unmarked grave, would memorialize her beauty and her martyrdom?

In his late forties, the statesman-professor has the bulk and the stiffness, but not the gloom, of a homely man; his smile exudes a sensual enjoyment of power which even a child would have noticed.

Those who question the magic of makeovers need only consider the career of Donna Murphy, who became a Broadway star playing the homely, man-chasing heroine of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion".

"By Afghan standards, Americans wore so little makeup that we looked pretty much like men — and homely men at that," Ms. Rodriguez writes, conceding defeat on that front.

In "Asian Tiger," a fading American pro named Sonny signs up for a gig at the National Golf Club in Myanmar, where he humors spoiled generals ("weird little guys, homely men with pot bellies and wispy tinted hair") so he can supersize his alimony payments.

Aside from any other matter, has no one else noticed how toadily homely the man's features have become since he piled on the muscle for Gangs of New York a few years back?

A recent cartoon in a Saudi newspaper showed a homely Saudi man visiting a plastic surgeon, toting a picture of Noor's husband, who is played by Kivanc Tatlitug, a blue-eyed former basketball player turned model turned actor who also plays the philandering Adonis in "Ask-i-Memnu".