In Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, east London, there is a shop that sells handsome old-fashioned hardware – enamelled pots and wooden scrubbing brushes – at new-fashioned prices: beneath a sign in crisp, utility-style sans serif type, it makes what were objects of working-class use into middle class objects of desire.
This sob story sold big here this week, the handsome couple stealing millions of North American hearts, while figure skating hijacked the Olympics with its, at best, confounding and, at worst, crooked subculture of subjectivity.
They have bought, renovated and sold (for handsome profits) house after house, in England, France, California and Connecticut.
The title of their debut album, The Decline of British Sea Power, was both rueful and tongue-in-cheek; it sold a handsome 50,303 copies (they counted).
In other pretty successful outcomes, the likes of Romelu Lukaku or Kevin De Bruyne, who do not quite match the standards set by the hierarchy, are sold at handsome profit.
The closed-end funds often sell at handsome discounts to the market value of their bonds.
Pennard's also sell a handsome variegated form of Daubenton's kale (£9.50 each), with cream edges to the frilly leaves.
If you want accuracy you should buy a Mr Jones watch; it sells a handsome model that carries on its hands the simple message: Remember, You Will Die.
Periodically, some commentariat grandee decries an unhealthy British obsession with home ownership, but none ever proclaim that they are selling their handsome town house in Islington and entering the more beneficial world of the private rented sector instead.
— The sluggish opening sale of the 2009 thoroughbred auction season had just concluded, and my last shot at selling our handsome yearling colt was the skinny old cowboy with a drooping eyelid who had trekked to our barn in sharp-pointed boots and a straw hat with a rattlesnake band complete with head and gaping fangs.
