Welling's jawling bugs me. It's weird, and kind of lumpy-square.

Keira Knightley

She is very pretty. I remember seeing her and wondering her name, because she's that pretty. I don't know if I think she's prettier than Tom Welling (or Kristen Kreuk, or CC). I would have to see a picture.

Pretty is a fairly subjective thing. My personal choice for most gorgeous human being ever to walk the planet is my first lover

Pretty means something different to me than does gorgeous and/or beautiful. It's feature oriented, but I can't explain it. Beautiful is more powerful, but pretty just hits the eyes. Someone who is pretty is always pretty. Beautiful people are also, of course, pretty, but they are able to arrange their faces so that they're not always pretty.

Tom Welling can be doing anything with his face, and all I can think is "pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty boy".

If I had lips like Keira Knightley, I would do nothing in the world but admire myself.

I'm with you Plei. I can see he's supposed to be pretty, but he does nothing for me.

On the distaff side, I think Emmanuelle Beaurt may be a contestant for "too pretty for this mortal coil." Jaclyn Smith in her Charlie's Angels days would also be a contender.

Welling's jawling bugs me. It's weird, and kind of lumpy-square.

To me, he's just not real. Someone said they needed an actor to play a young Superman, and someone drew him, and then breathed life into him. That's why the exaggerated manly jaw. Still the prettiest. Dare I say...prettier than Legolas?

Catherine Deneuve. Still.

Jaclyn Smith in her Charlie's Angels days would also be a contender.

Yes, certainly.

To me, he's just not real. Someone said they needed an actor to play a young Superman, and someone drew him, and then breathed life into him. That's why the exaggerated manly jaw. Still the prettiest. Dare I say...prettier than Legolas?

It's the lumpy that bugs me. We have news anchors here with squarer, more manly jaws (flamingly gay news anchors, in point of fact, with total Mary Sue names) than Welling, and the manly jaw doesn't bug. It's that the outline on his is wonky. It's off, and displeasing to the eye.

My iMac's destop pic at the moment is Ian McKlellan and Dom Monighan (prob. spelled that wrong) at a rugby game - Dom's got a little leaf painted on his cheek and these to-die-for cool sunglasses on. Dom is not pretty. Dom is sexy as hell. Hobbit or no. Ian is not pretty or sexy, but extremely handsome and kind-looking. It's nice that there are so many flavors of fun-to-look-at.

Catherine Deneuve. Still.

She is truly and literally beautiful. I don't think anyone is getting my definition of pretty (which really, look it up, TW is next to it in the dictionary).

Um... I wonder if I can use examples instead of definitions.

Robert Redford=pretty Paul Newman=beautiful

Farah Fawcett (in her hay day)=pretty Sophia Lauren=beautiful

Nah, they're not capturing what is in my head. Never mind.

eta...

Ooh, I think tina gets it, and possibly Plei.