physiognomy

He aimed to capture the temperament and character of his sitters as revealed by their physiognomy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

Eliza, who does not seem to belong there at all, is also hot — hotter than Petey’s former best friend, for even in cartoons, physiognomy is destiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

At the same exhibition, Degas showed four sketches of young men being tried for murder, which he had drawn from life; those, too, are informed by the day’s prevailing belief that physiognomy contained destiny.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2018

Sarandon’s very physiognomy suggests defiance; she looks indignant even at rest.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2017

But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Linowitz’s fanciful physiognomies peer inside as they bulge outward.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

“Avatar” was a thrilling moviegoing experience and a pioneering showpiece for performance-capture technology, which allowed Cameron and his actors to endow their Na’vi characters with astonishingly detailed and lifelike gazes, gestures and physiognomies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have two of the most mesmerizing — and pleasurably unnerving — physiognomies in movies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019

Craggy, gnarled, lean and tough, with a touch of whimsy, it is one of the most remembered physiognomies in history.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013

We will sketch one or two of the most striking physiognomies in the Fosse aux Lions.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue