Example Sentences

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Jane, whose judgments of Rochester, Blanche, and St. John land with unerring accuracy, knows how to unlock physiognomic secrets invisible to the untrained eye.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

Is its novelistic world built on physiognomic laws?

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

These portraits are fascinating in their concentration on the creamy skins, curling facial features and bright eyes of their subjects, as if he were studying them as physiognomic specimens.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2011

They fit effortlessly into the context of a contemporary art that encompasses images of physiognomic distortion by artists like Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Arnulf Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Ashley Bickerton and Keith Edmier, among many others.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

There is no doubt that we all tend to form our opinion of a stranger's probable characteristics partly on the basis of these physiognomic, physical, and sartorial factors.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.