A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. From LearnThat.org. [Charles Horton Cooley]
But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
These Tartars do not differ much in physiognomy from the Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
If he does not justify the hopes and expectations of the nation, physiognomy is of no value. —. From Wordnik.com. [General M'Clellan] Reference
The physiognomy was the living expression of the defiance of opposing force. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Philippe Makers of History Series] Reference
The only thing which was clearly to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange indecision. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
These lions of the Capitol are nobly peaceful, and their physiognomy is the true image of tranquillity in strength. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
His air was that of a man oppressed by a sense of his own greatness, and his physiognomy was a map of cunning and conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
It requires training and the formation of right habits of thought with respect to what may be called the physiognomy of goods. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
"There's something in the set of that hat, and the turn of that physiognomy, that is extremely familiar to me," said Buckthorne. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
“There's something in the set of that hat, and the turn of that physiognomy, that is extremely familiar to me,” said Buckthorne. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
His effusions on what may be called the physiognomy of external nature, or its moral and theological expression, are eminently fantastic, obscure, and affected. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
In short, the streets of Paris have every human quality, and impress us, by what we must call their physiognomy, with certain ideas against which we are defenceless. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirteen] Reference
As I had taken a very active part in all that had happened during some preceding days I was particularly curious to study what might be called the physiognomy of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Napoleon]
I'm not criticizing my body here -- I'm very pleased to have the kind of physiognomy that lets me walk anywhere at night. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-10] Reference
It is claimed there is a kind of physiognomy in the title of a book by which a skilful observer will know as well what to expect from its contents as one does reading the lines. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
"There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will know as well what to expect from the one as the other.". From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference
For this reason logic is indicated by the term 'physiognomy' which judges of the hidden by its outward manifestation. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference
Certainly it changes you and gives you a new physiognomy; but. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was that Patrick Stewart as one of the faces in the physiognomy lecture?. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference
When I think of such a one, it is not of the name at first, but of the physiognomy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Hands presented to his eyes a physiognomy as striking as the face -- a character, a soul. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His physiognomy would be clownish in expression, if his eyes did not redeem his other features. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
You touch on this really freaky concept of digital physiognomy, which I had never heard of before. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference
The satisfaction depicted on Bouchereau's physiognomy vanished, and was replaced by sombre anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The physiognomy of the subject of da Vinci's portrait, Borkowski says, suggests she was missing teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Mona Lisa: A Toothless Smile?] Reference
The latter became more and more troubled, and his physiognomy expressed both anxiety and embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Phwat?" inquired the foreman sharply, staring at the mosaic of physiognomy and accent embodied in Dennis. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Art throughout the ages has always had a place for articulated physiognomy and frenetic violent expression. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Mennin: Messerschmidt: An Accidental Visionary] Reference
His physiognomy was agreeable and prepossessing: to a natural eloquence he joined uncommon sweetness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
This captain, whom I had little opportunity to become acquainted with, was a tall dark man, of hard and repulsive physiognomy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
"Party members are worshiping Buddhas and practicing astrology, divination, geomancy and physiognomy," admits the People's Daily. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse When] Reference
Upon dissection we learned that every detail of alien physiognomy had already been imagined by scientists, artists, writers, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1/cats] Reference
He saw this foreign merchant, whom a happy and engaging physiognomy, with a gracious address, announced in a very favourable manner. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Her large, black, cadaverous physiognomy was relieved by dark sunken eyes, and by a pair of mustaches shading the corners of her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Pelletier forced a laugh, which ill agreed with the thoughtful expression his physiognomy had assumed; then he changed the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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