All of this produced the handsome, morose man we encounter at the very beginning of "Batman Begins, " when Bruce Wayne, wandering the mountains of Asia in search of wisdom, is approached and temporarily seduced by a vigilante group called the League of Shadows.

WSJ: Holy Melancholy, 'Batman'!

This time, Pandora is under the control of a man named Handsome Jack, who is mining the planet for a valuable resource in order to open yet another Vault.

CNN: SHARE THIS

At the door, a handsome, clean-shaven man with gelled-back hair is trying to catch my eye.

BBC: News, Calais

Not surprisingly he was a small man, broad across the shoulders, but also handsome.

NPR: Sergeant Notes Odd Rituals of War in Afghanistan

He was a magically handsome young man, irresistible to women--"the hunk, " the press called him.

CNN: Brought up to be a good man

At 61 he is still a handsome man, with a full head of chestnut hair and the ability to wow a live audience.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Old West Point photos show a handsome man in a crisp uniform who graduated in 1974, joined the cavalry at Fort Bliss, then led nuclear weapons support teams in Korea.

FORBES: Magazine Article

His father was a successful industrialist from Alsace (which had fallen to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71), supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank.

ECONOMIST: The Dreyfus affair

While Ronald Reagan was often a leading man with his handsome face and playful charm, Fred Thompson, well, he's never the star.

NPR: Fred Thompson: Senator vs. Actor

Nazneen suffers under the weight of his illusions and his failure, never making her own wishes known, and then meets a handsome young man, Karim (Christopher Simpson), who grew up in London and has no illusions about anything.

NEWYORKER: Brick Lane