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The phrase "too handsome" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to someone who is seen as attractive. For example, "The boys at school thought he was too handsome for his own good."
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"I'm too handsome for that," he explained.
You're too young and too handsome.
Grant was too handsome and too posh.
For some Zambians the rewards seem too handsome.
Djindjic, almost too handsome, looks sleek and poised.
The first one came out far too handsome.
It's too handsome to put away and costs $29.
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But, for me, Affleck was still the too-handsome actor who had been in that awful movie where a thousand Japanese aircraft tried to destroy Kate Beckinsale's career.
The defining image is a Henry Diltz photograph of the Eagles from the "Desperado" cover shoot, when Don Henley and a glowering, too-handsome Glenn Frey were likening their rock-starness to being gunslingers from the Wild West.
His crisp diction and creased, handsome-but-not-too-handsome face; his way of splitting the difference between smart and smug, sarcastic and sincere; and his unmistakably businesslike demeanor have made him an exemplary figure for a period that doesn't quite know what to make of its relationship to greed.
(Even in gangster films, the leads have traditionally been conventionally handsome. In "The Sopranos," by contrast, the too-handsome character was always somehow to be regarded with suspicion).
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