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physiognomy

[fiz-ee-og-nuh-mee, -on-uh-mee] / ˌfɪz iˈɒg nə mi, -ˈɒn ə mi /


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Such activities include praying to gods and deities, fortunetelling and physiognomy, and consulting spiritual gurus or mystics, according to party commentaries and state media.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 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

But a wondrous portrait of one Simon George, a little-known nobleman from Cornwall, displays Holbein’s incredible ability to forge an individual likeness through both physiognomy and symbols.

From New York Times Feb. 10, 2022

You can bet actors of every physiognomy – Oldman, Bale, Rockwell, Streep – are already thinking: “I could have a crack at Trump” Film-makers are doubtless considering the options, too.

From The Guardian Nov. 23, 2020

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

Then, the two physiognomies, which I try to reconcile with each other, have this trait in common: they both show us a man who observes and who reflects.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon




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