physiognomy
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So the heart of the problem was to give the museum the necessary new gallery space, studio for resident artists, 100-seat “vegetable-forward” restaurant, and other supporting areas—while doing nothing that would disrupt its distinctive physiognomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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
“I deal with the physiognomy of the soul of black folk,” said Stevens.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2019
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
Aunt Jessie was a devotee of palm reading, one of the “minor superstitions” that was in vogue, along with seances, phrenology, and physiognomy.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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
By then, Mullins and Ashburn are acting out their own quasi-marital drama of clashing temperaments and contrasting physiognomies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
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
His smooth beardless face was one of those physiognomies whose age it is difficult to discover, as when young they look older, when old, younger, than they really are.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
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