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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

This was a woman about forty years old, possessed of one of those marked and characteristic physiognomies which painters are fond of attributing to the inhabitants of southern Europe.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various