How to Use physiognomy in a Sentence

physiognomy

noun

• He and his son have the same distinctive physiognomy.
• And each is distinct from the others in everything: physiognomy, hairstyle, clothes, even the lines in the palms of their hands.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 14 July 2017
• Hence the 19th century was the golden age of a pseudoscience known as physiognomy.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2017
• That Quest Pro headset has five cameras that scan a user’s physiognomy to make their avatar show their expressions in real time.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
• Based on the images that have been released, the new car’s physiognomy is very similar to that of the outgoing version, but there are some subtle differences.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 May 2022
• Noah's daughters-in-law, unnamed in the Bible, are each assigned a different race to explain the varying physiognomy of the world's inhabitants.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 24 May 2017
• The physiognomy of a baby doll represents what the person buying it considers to be precious.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• Lavater took the approaches of physiognomy and blended them with the latest scientific knowledge.
  — Kate Crawford, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
• Though diminutive, miniatures condense and unify a host of references to physiognomy, class, attire and setting.
  — Colin T. Eisler, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Bush now commands a style, generic but efficient, of thick, summary brushwork that aims to capture expression as well as physiognomy.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• But as the distortions start to affect the relations between the characters and their own physiognomy, things grow increasingly unreal.
  — George Pendle, Esquire, 21 Feb. 2018
• Some plastic surgeons have been educating themselves in physiognomy to advise their clients.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• At one point, the conversation turned to physiognomy, the pseudoscientific judgment of a person’s character based on their facial features.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• And yet the brilliant meditations—on whether color exists in the world or in the eye, on physiognomy, on borders and borderlessness, and on suffering—seem in some instances comically obsolete and in others utterly germane.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Her images are a critique of pseudo-scientific studies in 19th- and early 20th-centuries that categorized racial groups according to their physiognomy as a way to assert the superiority of whites.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
• The notebook contains thoughts on perspective that Da Vinci jotted down next to architectural studies and caricatures for physiognomy studies.
  — Nicole Martinelli, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2006
• Years of chronic asthma and a fragile physiognomy left him relatively limited in his physical activity.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2020
• In Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, Duchenne laid important foundations for both Darwin and Ekman, connecting older ideas from physiognomy and phrenology with more modern investigations into physiology and psychology.
  — Kate Crawford, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024