There are more than 25 physiognomic steppe formations in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kazakh steppe] Reference

Furthermore, pronounced floristic and physiognomic gradients are evident in the ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets] Reference

The park contains a high diversity of plant communities with striking physiognomic differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, United States] Reference

This implies a marked seasonal pattern and a physiognomic difference between dry and humid seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropical Dry Forests ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

This physiognomic effect is so unobtrusive that, in the beginning at least, it could hardly have been intentional.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHANCE IMAGES] Reference

With great talent she rendered visible both physiognomic and psychological traits, as well as the intellectual traits of her subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mela Muter.] Reference

I am puzzled, therefore, by Professor Zerner's lengthy exposition of the physiognomic potentialities of shapes, as if I had ever denied them.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Sense of Order': An Exchange] Reference

The audiences and judges initial reaction to Susan was a typical demonstration of the eugenicist, physiognomic exclusionary bias that plagues mainstream T.V.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRO-ATTRACTIVENESS BIAS » Sociological Images] Reference

According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Were it not for their chains, it would have been difficult to discover master from slave; the physiognomic traits were alike — the mild benignity with which we were regarded was equally visible on all faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

Currently, these models consider only plant functional types distinguished by their physiological (C3 versus C4 photosynthesis), phenological (deciduous versus evergreen), and physiognomic (grass versus tree) attributes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change and fire in the Arctic] Reference

Cryptosepalum forest represents part of a floristic and physiognomic transition from Guineo-Congolian rain forest to Zambezian woodlands, and many of the plant species found are Guineo-Congolian or Afromontane linking species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests] Reference

Since these are the only image-bearing pillows we know of in the history of art, Dürer presumably discovered their physiognomic potential by accident, perhaps while sketching a pillow in preparation of a print or a paint - ing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHANCE IMAGES] Reference

Mental development has been one of the results of war and immigration; one people learning from another, and striking out new modes of thought from the sheer necessity of new circumstances; and this mental development changing the physiognomic expression and general bearing of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

This physiognomic character is very far from being common to all volcanoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The amount of study given to the hand renders it probable that palmistry may have considerable value as a physiognomic science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1] Reference

It was a coincidence of physiognomic intentions rather than actual resemblance -- or a resemblance, such as might exist between a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories] Reference

Biddy said nothing to Peter Sherringham, but there was no flatness in a silence which heaved, as it were, with the fairest physiognomic portents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

But in a moment he returned, another man with him who might have been his twin brother, so strongly pronounced in each were the racial physiognomic characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure] Reference

It is, in a word, more physiognomic than any other single poem by Browning, and so must ever possess a peculiar interest quite apart from its many passages of haunting beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

Brown had the square jaw, and the low furrowed brow, in other words, with some of the right physiognomic attributes for the role of dominant male, regardless of how attractive we find these features.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

It is manifest that the artist has not been content to mark the nationality of the different figures by costume alone, but has aimed at reproducing upon the stone the physiognomic peculiarities of each race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

On returning home some hours later he produced a sketch-book and in Bourdelin's presence swiftly outlined the twelve figures, exactly reproducing not only physiognomic divergences but every detail of costume!.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference

Thus, in the structure of his sentences, as in other things, his language is strictly physiognomic of his matter, the speaking exterior of the inward life; which life is indeed the one sole organizing principle of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference

I know that this may possibly be great nonsense; that half the time we are acclaiming the fine quality of the Italian smile the creature so constituted for physiognomic radiance may be in a sullen frenzy of impatience and pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

Oh, the unutterable differences in any scheme or estimate of physiognomic values, in any range of sensibility to expressional association, among observers of different, of inevitably more or less opposed, traditional and "racial" points of view!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

This subdued mental agitation, and wandering of his thoughts from the matter his tongue is handling, silently registers itself in a broken, disjointed, and somewhat rambling course of narrative; that is, his style runs so in sympathy with his state of mind as to be unconsciously physiognomic of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference

The points seized upon by the diarist are almost never physiognomic, and even if the diarist does give some glimpse of the character he professes to limn, the picture can only be partially true, inasmuch as it can never be toned down by other aspects of the character unseen by the diarist and unknown to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

A complete command of all the physiognomic details of old France, of old Paris and its people -- how they made a holiday; how they got at the news; the fashions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays from 'The Guardian'] Reference

It also embraces its Sybarite mythology of spiritual and physiognomic rejuvenation by laminating it’s narcissism, multi-seasonal growth patterns, and technophoria into botanical spas.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Jennifer Siegal | Inhabitat] Reference

I wrote to-day to your father, your excellent father, "exclaimed Dona Perfecta, with all the physiognomic signs that make their appearance when a tear is about to be shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dona Perfecta] Reference

There is great physiognomic tact in Sterne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

8 physiognomic perception rather the insight is derived out of metaphor built on structures inherently in place in our psychological pre-constructs ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Vitellius, the Legates, the Centurions at Antioch, the hero, the husband, the father, the friend, the leader -- the struggles of nature and sparks of hope, must be subjected to the physiognomic character and features of Germanicus, the son of Drusus, the Caesar of Tiberius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference