They are quite unlike the classically handsome men who monopolise this year's Oscar nominations, for example: your traditionally sexy Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis Day-Lewis and Viggo Mortensen
There are more categories to parse; the best picture winner has had a corresponding best editing nomination for decades, for example.
But this throws away a lot of potentially valuable information: Hillary Rodham Clinton came quite close to winning the Democratic nomination in 2008, for example, while Mike Gravel did not.
It was often a product of an arrogance he had and poor decision-making – not responding to the All India Gold Medal nomination in 1962, for example.
And Mr. Romney is not the first to face such challenges; the campaign of Michael S. Dukakis agonized over the role of Jesse Jackson after Mr. Dukakis beat him for the Democratic nomination in 1988, for example.
Mr Anschutz's innovation in free newspapers is to deliver them to high-income homes, rather than distribute them randomly to commuters.The Examiners' editorials have taken right-of-centre positions, robustly defending Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, for example.
In the Norwich PCT application [ 12, 24], for example, nomination of an option for investment was only accepted if a corresponding disinvestment was nominated to the 'shift list'.
"Yet it still exercised massive influence" – training candidates to ensure they won nominations for safe seats, for example, and, as the Labour left sees it, using networks of influence to secure important positions in the party.
When Obama accepts the Democratic nomination in Denver next August, for example, his words should be foolproof.
The musical or comedy category has long been used, or rather abused, by studios trying to jimmy in their films that would otherwise risk a lack of nomination in the drama category (for example, 2013 saw Spike Jonze's heartbreaking, vaguely amusing at times, drama Her sneak in).
