physiognomy
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He aimed to capture the temperament and character of his sitters as revealed by their physiognomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
“Although Hall never resorts to a cliched impersonation, his suggestion of Nixon’s physiognomy is frequently uncanny, especially in profile.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
She and Bardem are both miscast, but Kidman is a particularly off fit for Ball, whose physical dexterity and ductile physiognomy, her rubber-band mouth and astonished eyes, are imprinted in our collective brain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
To an extent, her success was due to physiognomy.
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2019
And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have two of the most mesmerizing — and pleasurably unnerving — physiognomies in movies.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
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
Like living friends they too have their voice and physiognomies, and their company is prized as old acquaintances.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
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