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physiognomy

[ UK /fˌɪzɪˈɒɡnəmi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

How To Use physiognomy In A Sentence

  • They appropriated the symbolic authority, as well as the physiognomy of the architecture.
  • But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation. Men's brains, women's brains
  • I told him I was new to painting, not to physiognomy.
  • Scrub with a slightly different physiognomy is present in two areas north of the river.
  • 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
  • The sensitivity to local character and landscape and costume and, yes, even physiognomy.
  • And finally he doubts it only when chirognomy conflicts with physiognomy. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
  • For the lovely Larghetto in II, Bilson gives each note its own character, even its own physiognomy.
  • 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
  • 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. 12 « June « 2008 « Jahsonic
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