physiognomies
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Linowitz’s fanciful physiognomies peer inside as they bulge outward.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
“Avatar” was a thrilling moviegoing experience and a pioneering showpiece for performance-capture technology, which allowed Cameron and his actors to endow their Na’vi characters with astonishingly detailed and lifelike gazes, gestures and physiognomies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
By then, Mullins and Ashburn are acting out their own quasi-marital drama of clashing temperaments and contrasting physiognomies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
Craggy, gnarled, lean and tough, with a touch of whimsy, it is one of the most remembered physiognomies in history.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013
I do not attach any value to physiognomies, and consider phrenology, craniology, and their kindred, to be rather humbugs; but, nevertheless, I was struck with the soft, insignificant inexpressiveness of his eyes and features.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
