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
“Although Hall never resorts to a cliched impersonation, his suggestion of Nixon’s physiognomy is frequently uncanny, especially in profile.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022
She and Bardem are both miscast, but Kidman is a particularly off fit for Ball, whose physical dexterity and ductile physiognomy, her rubber-band mouth and astonished eyes, are imprinted in our collective brain.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
To an extent, her success was due to physiognomy.
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2019
Whether there is some transmission of knowledge through the ether, or whether physiognomy and expression have some linguistic virtue so subtle that we do not remark its operation, the eyes may indeed speak.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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