What's the difference between fascinating and handsome?

Fascinating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fascinate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
  • (9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
  • (10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
  • (12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
  • (13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
  • (14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
  • (15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
  • (16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
  • (18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
  • (19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
  • (20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.

Handsome


Definition:

  • (superl.) Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
  • (superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
  • (superl.) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.
  • (superl.) Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
  • (superl.) Ample; moderately large.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (2) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
  • (3) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (4) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
  • (5) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
  • (6) I thought Mark was perfect: smart, romantic (he wrote me love notes in year 9 French) and quite handsome.
  • (7) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
  • (8) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
  • (9) Moyes's plan for Carrick and Marouane Fellaini to "tag-team" West Ham's striker worked handsomely and Carroll's only moment of threat came after 15 minutes, when he headed straight at David de Gea.
  • (10) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.
  • (11) And he adds: “Women usually vote for the more handsome man.” Asked how German chancellor Angela Merkel had come to power in a country where women vote, he changed the topic to sports teams coached by men.
  • (12) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (13) Some art historians thought Leighton was gay – his handsome friend, the Italian painter Giovanni Costa, was the only guest recorded as staying overnight – while others believed he never had a lover of either sex.
  • (14) A handsome pair of strippedback brick apartment buildings will frame a forthcoming bridge across the river, leading to a woodland park beyond.
  • (15) To wit: the near offence taken when speculation first surfaced that Stewart was dating Cargile – what an absurd decision given that she used to go out with the handsome, perfectly stubbled Robert Pattinson, right?
  • (16) One Saturday afternoon in September 1954, a handsome, faintly smiling god looked up from the London mud.
  • (17) SNL finally paid off handsomely, but in a delayed-reaction sort of way."
  • (18) While some of its outreach involved active image management, some parts were pragmatic, such as its offer of handsome salaries for engineers able to maintain the oil fields on which Isis relies for black-market income.
  • (19) The handsome finish went high past the left hand of Víctor Valdés.
  • (20) Among MME, youthfulness, handsomeness, and sexiness are important, promoting versatility in place of specificity when mentioning sexual acts.