How To Use Physiognomy In A Sentence
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They appropriated the symbolic authority, as well as the physiognomy of the architecture.
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Distance estimation to unseen birds is difficult, because attenuation of bird vocalizations is affected by vegetation type and physiognomy, position of the bird relative to the observer, and song or call pitch.
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The science of physiognomy was of particular importance to the ancient Greeks.
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He used this time to study formal logic, social psychology, physiognomy, and craniometry, which laid the foundations of a broad approach in medicine.
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If he does not justify the hopes and expectations of the nation, physiognomy is of no value. —
General M'Clellan
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There is nothing in his prose or his physiognomy to suggest that he will become flabby or paunchy.
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The physiognomy of the city and the bearing of its inhabitants share the portentous aspect of a drama.
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Today, some restingas still suffer man-made impact through fire or cattle, but even apparently pristine areas display an open physiognomy.
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In naturalistic novels such inessential things as a minor character's physiognomy and costume are depicted in minute detail.
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This was the first opportunity he'd had to study their physiognomy closely.
EVERVILLE
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In sum, physiognomists recognized the face as an index of emotion and character; and physiognomy offered a way of conceptualizing these particular observations in terms of general categories or theories.
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But in the half-century that had passed since Robespierre's Jacobins waged their life and death struggle against feudal reaction, the economic structure and social physiognomy of Europe had changed.
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When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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The attempt to create the mirage of value through speculative activities independent of the production process had a profound effect on the character of American capitalism and the social physiognomy of its ruling elite.
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I am told 'tis something to do with physiognomy and philosophy and painting and acting and so on.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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His eyes barely flickered from their minute inspection of Ted's benign physiognomy.
BEHINDLINGS
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He did not understand this galoche having been the sign of a hosier, nor the purport of the earthenware cask -- a common cider-keg -- and, to be candid, the St. Peter was lamentable with his drunkard's physiognomy.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
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But this woman has committed to memory all the essentials of her own physiognomy, and can conjure up, time and again, her own basic likeness without resorting to a mirror.
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There is no doubt that Charles Darwin was sceptical about the claims of physiognomy with regard to expression and emotion.
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The paper focused on physiognomy, which suggests that the ‘beauty’ under discussion is a natural endowment.
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Whitlock had always believed strongly in physiognomy and his conclusions were rarely wrong.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Some palmistry mimics metoposcopy or physiognomy.
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The remaining wall is covered with a wallpaper-like series of repeated images in ink, ornamented by scrolls in red and featuring drawings of hanged witches, palmistry and physiognomy studies.
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The opera houses of Charles Garnier in Paris and Gottfried Semper in Dresden are memorable precisely because their expressive physiognomy is a kind of exultant precis of the spaces and happenings within.
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Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Who wouldn't like a philandering professor who'd added so many lapidary turns of phrase to my repertoire, including “physiognomy of astuteness” and “a knothole of a town in a stump of a state” about Columbia, Missouri, where my sisters went to college.
My Night With the All-College Girl Revue
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With the figures of Duchene, Warhol and Sherman as anchors, Sobieszek ranges a near full history of physiognomy, pathognomy and phrenology from Aristotle to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
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His eyes barely flickered from their minute inspection of Ted's benign physiognomy.
BEHINDLINGS
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Lavater linked silhouettes to the ‘science’ of physiognomy, which aimed to discern a person's character from their facial features.
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A student of physiognomy is never misled by superficial changes in appearance such as are wrought by clothing, ornaments, or cosmetics.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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I'm put off by the rote lingo of liturgies, and I can never quite square the exceedingly European Jesus of my childhood lesson books with the physiognomy of the region.
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He was fascinated by her physiognomy — the prominent nose, brooding eyes and thick hair.
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In reality, the very same combinations of moral qualities, infinitely varied, which compose the harsh physiognomy of what we call worldliness in the living groups of life, must unavoidably present themselves in books.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
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Our artist then can cover up faces, and yet show them quite clearly, as in the thimblerig group; or he can do without faces altogether; or he can, at a pinch, provide a countenance for a gentleman out of any given object — a beautiful Irish physiognomy being moulded upon a keg of whiskey; and a jolly
George Cruikshank
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This was the first opportunity he'd had to study their physiognomy closely.
EVERVILLE
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In reality the very same combinations of moral qualities, infinitely varied, which compose the harsh physiognomy of what we call worldliness in the living groups of life, must unavoidably present themselves in books.
Biographical Essays
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And we do frequently identify people on this basis too - I recognize someone walking down the hall as the dean of the college by his physiognomy, attire, voice, etc.
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The regional physiognomy is characterized by broad ridges and rugged dissected stream valleys cutting through sedimentary rocks and scattered igneous knobs.
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This larger confederation would in turn be a particular state, with its own personality, its own interests, its own physiognomy.
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The approach towards these limits gives rise to significant changes in the physiognomy of the capitalist economy.
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Micmac" Indians, for Prof. Lee has spent his enforced leisure in putting in anthropometric work among them, inducing braves, squaws and papooses of both sexes to mount the trunk that served as a measuring block and go through the ordeal of having their height, standing and sitting, stretch of arms, various diameters of head and peculiarities of the physiognomy taken down.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
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The description of the ‘new’ working class dance halls in this passage emphasizes the rising importance of the proletariat for the city's physiognomy.
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Men would not have found the means of independent life; they would simply have discovered (no easy task) a new physiognomy of servitude.
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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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He was born under the Pyrenees; he was a Gascon of the Gascons, one of a people strongly distinguished by intellectual and moral character, by manners, by modes of speech, by accent, and by physiognomy from the French of the Seine and of the Loire; and he had many of the peculiarities of the race to which he belonged.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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But more interesting than the disgust is the system of belief working behind it: the principles of physiognomy.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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The hilltop ecological effect of Danxia Landform generated by the distinct physiognomy and topography was investigated.
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The physiognomy of the city and the bearing of its inhabitants share the portentous aspect of a drama.
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The basic political physiognomy of the UAW remains the same today as it was during the Cold War, above all its fear of socialism and hatred of its Marxist opponents.
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Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Aristotle, I confess, in his acute and singular book of physiognomy, hath made no mention of chiromancy: 80 yet I believe the
Religio Medici
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Many bigots and racists still use physiognomy to judge character and personality.
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Her hair and facial features were indistinct, and the only part of her physiognomy that was vivid were her eyes.
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In naturalistic novels such inessential things as a minor character's physiognomy and costume are depicted in minute detail.
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Biometrics posits that there are unique, measurable, and permanent physical features, which is why this science - like physiognomy before it - has difficulty with the simple fact that people change.
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Yet what emerges after Aristotle is a complex relationship between the classical mode of reading and judging character - physiognomy - and the rise and triumph of inner, scientific understandings of expression based on physiology.
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a key connection between the elongation of Soyer's physiognomy ( "phiz"), and his desire for renown.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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People delighted in decoding the physiognomy of the ordinary faces that crowded the pages of the popular press.
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She accordingly gave up her skill in physiognomy, and henceforwards conceived so ill an opinion of her guest, that she heartily wished him out of her house.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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His shape , now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonized in squareness with his physiognomy.
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He was fascinated by her physiognomy — the prominent nose, brooding eyes and thick hair.
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What I particularly like about these character sketches are their plotlessness, their roots as inspiration for the psychological novel, there generalizations into stereotypes and stock characters, and finally, their link to caricatures and physiognomy.
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I would again borrow Ld Carysforts book, [4] & get a face of better physiognomy from the print there. the book does not want such aid — but it would be serving a young man of merit, who wants assistance.
Letter 274
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For the lovely Larghetto in II, Bilson gives each note its own character, even its own physiognomy.
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And finally he doubts it only when chirognomy conflicts with physiognomy.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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The sensitivity to local character and landscape and costume and, yes, even physiognomy.
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When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Scrub with a slightly different physiognomy is present in two areas north of the river.
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I told him I was new to painting, not to physiognomy.
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Perched upon a sandbank was a regiment of enormous white pelicans of thoughtful and sage-like physiognomy, ranged in a row, as if to watch how we passed the bar.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Trends in cuticular species richness parallel inferred changes in vegetation physiognomy and biomass.
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For years physiognomy - the idea that a person's face is a reflection of his character - was sneered at.
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Guizot, the historian, speak for the political and social realm: 'All things, at their origin, are nearly confounded in one and the same physiognomy; it is only in their aftergrowth that their variety shows itself.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He was fascinated by her physiognomy — the prominent nose, brooding eyes and thick hair.
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Thus it's hardly surprising that the distinctive physiognomy of the mountain is integral to the drawn and photographed records of the city, and has provided an ongoing source of inspiration to her poets, artists and writers.
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There is a tradition in high art - the kind Bacon made - of studying, or fantasising, the head itself, mapping the extremes of expression and physiognomy.
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Lavater, who wrote fragments on physiognomy, and who styles himself a fragment of a physiognomist, maintains that physiognomy exists as a true science.
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Say ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, and the person you are speaking to will see in the mind's eye Spencer Tracy's amiably pudgy features dissolving into the monstrous physiognomy of Edward Hyde.
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Therefore, I should advise my sagacious countrymen, if ever again they wish to trumpet about for thirty years a very commonplace person as a great genius, not to choose for the purpose such a beerhouse-keeper physiognomy as was possessed by that philosopher, upon whose face nature had written, in her clearest characters, the familiar inscription, “commonplace person.”
Religion
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Whitlock had always believed strongly in physiognomy and his conclusions were rarely wrong.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation.
Men's brains, women's brains
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These Tartars do not differ much in physiognomy from the Chinese.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability but figure unto the body, it is no impossible physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies, and after what shape the muscles and carnous parts might hang in their full consistencies.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Yet for the sheer visual audacity and wit, the Echt Amerikan sense of the didactic effortlessly intermingled with pleasure (We’re gonna expose you to some highbrow music, sonny, but you’ll have fun anyway), and the move away from the heavy Germanic style of earlier features into a cleaner, more open sense of space and horizon and character (physiognomy is destiny, except when hippos dance!) it remains my favorite feature-length release.
A Ceramic Fantasia : Scrubbles.net
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The end of the Cold War and the eruption of US militarism have vindicated the analysis of imperialism made by Lenin, who characterized its political physiognomy as ‘reaction all along the line.’
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Remember that his very physiognomy is a cipher the key to which it behooves you to search for most diligently.
The Promised Land
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I regret to say that this young nobleman ended his leave-taking by introducing a pretty woman, with very neat hands and ankles and a most mutine physiognomy, as his sister, informing me that she was also my wife pro temp.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Like the visage on the ancient statues of Hercules, the physiognomy of the hulky Bernese was large and massive, having an air of indifferent and almost sullen composure, which did not change but in moments of the fiercest agitation.
Anne of Geierstein
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In naturalistic novels such inessential things as a minor character's physiognomy and costume are depicted in minute detail.
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A student of physiognomy is never misled by superficial changes in appearance such as are wrought by clothing, ornaments, or cosmetics.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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The main division, that of _Iliad_ and Odyssey, shows a distinct advance along this line; and the distinction is still more marked if we group with the _Odyssey_ four Books of the _Iliad_ whose Odyssean physiognomy is well marked.
Homer and His Age
