How To Use Phrenologist In A Sentence
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In this respect a phrenologist is a pure quack in comparison with a lady in a trance.
Recollections of Europe
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By taking away what the phrenologists call combativeness, we could doubtless stop prize-fight, but we might have a springless society.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Eventually it became fashionable to have a reading done by the famous phrenologists, and many celebrities of the day had their heads examined, including Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Hiriam Powers, Theodore Weldand, and Edwin Forrest.
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Even though the self-righteous Bachmann is a native of Waterloo, Iowa, voters in the Hawkeye State just cannot see trusting her with the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal trusting a Creationist like Bachmann on any public policy is akin to trusting a phrenologist with curing your cancer.
James Marshall Crotty: Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How It Hurts America
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Morton picked up his craniology from George Combe, a phrenologist who believed the brain housed all the organs of character.
American Connections
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No one these days would argue such a thesis at length any more than they would pontificate on the brain-measuring taxonomies of 19th-century phrenologists who took the white man's superiority for granted.
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You might think getting a globe is as relevant as going to see a phrenologist.
Globe-Trot In Style
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Similarly, the 1871 book New Physiognomy, written by the American phrenologist Samuel Roberts Wells, described the Irish woman as being governed “by the lower or animal passions,” “seeking her chief pleasure from things physical and animal,” and unable to see “beauty in that which can not be eaten or used for the gratification of the bodily appetites or passions.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Professor Hubert, the eminent phrenologist and psychologist, delivered to a very large audience in the Central Hall of the Exhibition Buildings, a lecture entitled ‘How to read men and women at a glance.’
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Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.
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Not that I am what is called a phrenologist, but I am curious as to the physical developments of these fellow-mortals of mine, and a little in want of a sensation.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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You might think getting a globe is as relevant as going to see a phrenologist.
Globe-Trot In Style
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And so much for the grandest histrion of modern times, as near as I can deliberately judge (and the phrenologists put my caution at 7) grander, I believe, than Kean in the expression of electric passion, the prime eligibility of the tragic artist.
The Old Bowery. November Boughs
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His hair was cropped close, and the unevennesses of his cranium, thus laid bare, would have struck a phrenologist by reason of the strange intertexture of contradictory propensities.
A Hero of Our Time
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Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with
The Columbian stories: Columns
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Queen Victoria had her own personal phrenologist.
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The heart, the head, the life and the fate were all crucial concepts to her, just they didn't give up their runic braille quite as easily as the digital phrenologists claimed.
Death Masking Love
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Charles Ward is the LNN's Director of Public Relations and resident phrenologist.
Archive 2009-11-01
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His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs.
Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of
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The inference from this characteristic, that he possessed what phrenologists used to call "combativeness," is not unavoidable, though such was the fact.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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In her character, what phrenologists call "destructiveness," in the comprehensive sense of the word, was superlatively developed.
Lucretia — Volume 02
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He had thick reddish-yellow eyebrows at the base of a slightly receding forehead – wanting in benevolence, phrenologists would have said, and with the bump of self-esteem considerably developed.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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I'm no phrenologist, but there's something about that guy...
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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His death mask, which showed him to have had a sharply receding forehead, created problems for nineteenth century phrenologists since it ‘left no room for the organ of causality’.
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The phrenologists do well to locate, not only form, color, and weight, in the region of the eye, but also a faculty which they call individuality -- that which separates, discriminates, and sees in every object its essential character.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
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Instead of countering these puny charges, let me just say that these allegations of inferior innards recall those of the phrenologists and racial purists in one of the darkest eras of modern history.
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Channel 9 news responded that: ‘I believe it was noted philanthropist, philosopher and phrenologist Shaquille O’Neal who said ‘Tell me how my ass tastes.’
Media Coverage October 2009
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Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.
