How To Use Phrenological In A Sentence
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True, his working environment is near-Victorian, with polished walnut desk, silver candelabra and a porcelain phrenological head.
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In an early attempt at brain mapping, this etching of a symbolic head and phrenological chart aims to explain the functions designated to the different "organs" of the brain.
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For ourselves, are bound to confess that we never had the honour of meeting with this megacephalous gentleman, nor did we ever encounter any one who professed to have seen him, otherwise we would certainly have reported the case to the Phrenological Society.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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This shews that our heroine has great mechanical genius; or, to speak phrenologically, that her "constructiveness," "comparison," and "calculation" are well developed.
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
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These reports summarized the ethnic makeup of the United States, and included phrenological studies of different races.
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Charles Ward is the LNN's Director of Public Relations and senior phrenological correspondent.
An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network
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Imagers who do not correct for multiple comparisons have a special place in hell reserved for them, one circle about ticket scalpers. failing to correct for multiple comparisons is exactly the kind of slack ass, ignorant, bandwagon-jumping "ooh I'm studying the brain look at me" bullshit that leads to the sorts of pejorative phrenological associations that plague real neuroscientists every day of our lives
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People of his “uncongealable sanguine personality,” Sam explained, falling back on his old phrenological diagnosis, were “very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Everyone who's worth a fraction of a damn in the fMRI world knows full well (and has for some time) that failing to correct for multiple comparisons is exactly the kind of slack ass, ignorant, bandwagon-jumping "ooh I'm studying the brain look at me" bullshit that leads to the sorts of pejorative phrenological associations that plague real neuroscientists every day of our lives.
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The phrenological examiner also had to take into account the development of the ‘intellectual’ faculties relative to those that governed the ‘animal’ functions.
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I'm studying women's phrenological characteristics.
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Other resources were in short supply as well: in 1887 the journal of the National Museum in Rio reported despondently on the difficulties of obtaining Indian skulls for phrenological research.
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The chimney-piece was very high, and there was a bad glass — what I may call a wavy glass — above it, which, when I stood up, just showed me my anterior phrenological developments, — and these never look well, in any subject, cut short off at the eyebrow.
The Holly-Tree
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Phrenologically the Indian allows his alimentiveness to overbalance his group of organs which show veneration, benevolence, fondness for society, fêtes champêtres, etc., hope, love of study, fondness for agriculture, an unbridled passion for toil, etc.
Comic History of the United States
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But by then, other discoveries had called the phrenological brain map into question.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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The Financial Times-Bowen Craggs Web Effectiveness Index, the fourth edition of which has just been published, is a phrenological gold mine.
You Can Judge A Company By Its Bad Website
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It is hideous to my imagination, especially what is called phrenological mesmerism.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
