He is an odd-looking man, a hybrid - right on the border between broodingly handsome and dorky, able to shift back and forth depending on the angle of his head (and, perhaps, the eye of the beholder).

Cassavetes was, of course, also an actor, a broodingly handsome, riveting one who eventually specialized in suave villainy ("Rosemary's Baby," "The Fury").

Hiatus was now in a tailored suit whose upturned collar and descending tails looked elegant; he was suddenly a broodingly handsome man.

But Kristen is willing to be coached and molded by the broodingly handsome Jim.

He was broodingly handsome, and as suspect as youthful melancholia always is, it's nonetheless superficially attractive.

Like all the best mansions, this one boasts a name, the Feigenspan, after the beer baron who built it for his family; a pedigree, as a state and national historic landmark, and looks - the broodingly handsome kind, like Laurence Olivier's in "Wuthering Heights."

"Your parents must have had a sense of humor," the broodingly handsome and plucky love interest says to Elektra about her mythopoetic name.

His broodingly handsome face was on the cover of Newsweek (for an article written by this writer), under the title "Odd Man In."

The week Varnedoe's appointment was announced, Barneys New York, the posh Manhattan clothiers, ran a full-page advertisement in this magazine that showed a broodingly handsome man, with thick, artistically tousled hair staring out at the reader with a penetrating gaze.