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Typical shot: Bendix, his anthropoidal brow heavily creased, incredulously surveying a modern painting to determine which end is up.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a performer, Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though he can crawl, and may have clinging to him certain brute instincts that may be the relics of his anthropoidal days, he has also, thank God, divine desires and discontents, and certain rudimentary wings.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The anthropoidal ape, sitting under a prehistoric palm tree and picking fleas off his better half, did not know how—through the ages—his offspring were going to become men.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

Ferval saw plasmic dew become anthropoidal apes, fiercely roaming primeval forests in search of prey.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James