physiognomic , also: physiognomical

Yet under thick cosmetics this physiognomic test was no longer possible.

And there was a physiognomic alteration in the objects around her.

Scholars have begun to examine why and how this "physiognomic tradition" developed.

While convenient, these ratios may not reflect the physiognomic variation of the individuals using them.

Anthropologists used such masks to study physiognomic features in famous persons and notorious criminals.

The physiognomic differences between their faces and the faces of the fitter families are, not surprisingly, invisible.

This formed the basis for later reflections on acting and the role of the actor, important for his physiognomic worldview.

He himself, Astraios, had been handed over to Pythagoras, who after a physiognomic test accepted him as a student.

And then there is Mr. Gordon's handling of emotion, usually by means of some exaggerated physiognomic effect.

By means of a thirty-seven point physiognomic metric, the face could be digitally compared with a set of image files in the system's extensive database.

While loosely physiognomic ways of thinking are present in Greek literature as early as Homer, physiognomy proper is not known before the classical period.

A Quantitative Physiognomic Survey.

The special effects here, including the physiognomic morphing that is the sine qua non of recent horror movies, has an unholy smoothness.

Indeed Steir has drawn what seems like 100 versions of each facial feature, all of them based on four centuries of physiognomic studies.

Moreover, by virtue of his strange and peculiar vision, skulls or skeletons of their "victims" have a strong physiognomic resemblance and body.

Because the nose is the anchor-feature of the face, an aesthetically proportionate nose balances the physiognomic features of a person.

Šumma alamdimmû, "if the form," contains physiognomic omens on twenty-seven tablets.

The elements for Soliman as the "physiognomic moor" were laid out during his lifetime framed by theories and assumptions on the African race.

Physiognomic interpretation is, however, not something that can be learned; Kassner believed that the "seer" alone is called to physiognomy.

Canonical Correlation Analysis is used combining 31 leaf characters, but leaf margin type represented a significant component of the relationship between physiognomic states and temperature.

Morelli had developed a meticulous procedure, through which he claimed to be able to determine the painter of a work through analysis of physiognomic details.

The Laocoön is "delineated by four features of physiognomic strain," Mr. Spivey notes.

At regional and global scales there is predictability of certain vegetation characteristics, especially physiognomic ones, which are related to the predictability in certain environmental characteristics.

This was, however, a hybrid between physiognomic and functional classification schemes as it recognized monocots and dicots as groups.

However, his protruding and strong-willed jaw was a recognizable reference to the popular and propagandistic physiognomic iconography of Benito Mussolini.