Physiognomic

Some people start with the visual or physiognomic characteristics. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Currently, these models consider only plant functional types distinguished by their physiological (C3 versus C4 photosynthesis), phenological (deciduous versus evergreen), and physiognomic (grass versus tree) attributes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The audiences and judges initial reaction to Susan was a typical demonstration of the eugenicist, physiognomic exclusionary bias that plagues mainstream T.V. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With great talent she rendered visible both physiognomic and psychological traits, as well as the intellectual traits of her subjects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The park contains a high diversity of plant communities with striking physiognomic differences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This implies a marked seasonal pattern and a physiognomic difference between dry and humid seasons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Furthermore, pronounced floristic and physiognomic gradients are evident in the ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are more than 25 physiognomic steppe formations in the region. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cryptosepalum forest represents part of a floristic and physiognomic transition from Guineo-Congolian rain forest to Zambezian woodlands, and many of the plant species found are Guineo-Congolian or Afromontane linking species. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are some fairly clear physiognomic *traits* associated with *some* male homosexuality which a misspent early adulthood spent propping up gay bars provides all the instruction one needs! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Were it not for their chains, it would have been difficult to discover master from slave; the physiognomic traits were alike — the mild benignity with which we were regarded was equally visible on all faces. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

He had a large handsome head and a large sallow seamed face — a striking significant physiognomic total, the upper range of which, the great political brow, the thick loose hair, the dark fuliginous eyes, recalled even to a generation whose standard had dreadfully deviated the impressive image, familiar by engravings and busts, of some great national worthy of the earlier part of the mid-century. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I am puzzled, therefore, by Professor Zerner's lengthy exposition of the physiognomic potentialities of shapes, as if I had ever denied them. ❋ Gombrich, Ernst (1979)

Since these are the only image-bearing pillows we know of in the history of art, Dürer presumably discovered their physiognomic potential by accident, perhaps while sketching a pillow in preparation of a print or a paint - ing. ❋ H. W. JANSON (1968)

This physiognomic effect is so unobtrusive that, in the beginning at least, it could hardly have been intentional. ❋ H. W. JANSON (1968)

Mental development has been one of the results of war and immigration; one people learning from another, and striking out new modes of thought from the sheer necessity of new circumstances; and this mental development changing the physiognomic expression and general bearing of the man. ❋ Various (N/A)