physiognomy

It's a consequence of fair laws and practices that aren’t “of color” or “white” and that does not make your racial physiognomy or surname a signal that you're the bearer of “culture” which you may not actually identify with.

Last year, Maria Nadali, the mayor of Sifnos, urged the Greek government to put the brakes on “dizzying” tourist development — including banning the construction of further private swimming pools and “cave houses” built into mountain slopes, a trend that she said was altering the island’s “morphology and unique architectural physiognomy.”

Eliza, who does not seem to belong there at all, is also hot — hotter than Petey’s former best friend, for even in cartoons, physiognomy is destiny.

Strayer’s translation takes this on within the context of English-language literature, expanding its capacity to hold such miscellany as the physiognomy of a suburban French superstore, the language of its promotions and instructions to the customer, together with a packet of Milical cookies, a wedge of Reblochon.

Physiognomy is destiny, in show business even more than in normal life, and Reddick wasn’t built to play weakness.