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Example sentences for "phrenologists"

Lexicographically close words:
phratry; phrenic; phrenological; phrenologically; phrenologist; phrenology; phrensied; phrensy; phrenzy; phrynia
  1. It is observed, however, that persons with what the Phrenologists call "good heads" are more prone than others toward plenary belief in the doctrine.

  2. Of course, you know, that isn't the way the Phrenologists do.

  3. Thus, at the top, near the middle line of the head (and just about where the phrenologists located their "bump of veneration"!

  4. The phrenologists taught that the cerebellum was the center for the sexual instinct, but there is no evidence in favor of this guess.

  5. The phrenologists do well to locate not only form, color, weight, etc.

  6. There is a curious delusion, fostered by phrenologists and other amiable students of "temperament," to the effect that a brunette must infallibly fall in love with a blonde and vice versa.

  7. What dire misfortune may result if this rule is not followed can be only surmised, for the phrenologists do not know.

  8. Phrenologists have pretended that the peculiarities of a person's mind could be known by the conformation of his brain, and even by the elevations and depressions of the skull.

  9. All young ladies are under the influence of what phrenologists call the organ of Secretiveness, when they are in the society of the object of their preference.

  10. Phrenologists discovered that Mr. Thurtell had a very fine organ of Conscientiousness; yet, somehow or other, that erring personage contrived to knock the brains out of his friend's organ of Individuality.

  11. It is observed, however, that persons with what the phrenologists call "good heads" are more prone than others toward plenary belief in the doctrine.

  12. And so of other faculties Of course, you know, that isn't the way the phrenologists do.

  13. Phrenologists look gravely at that great scull, by the way, and hope, in their grim manner, that its owner made a good end.

  14. It is well known to phrenologists that the skull is thinner in those regions that are most constantly used in the mental habits of the individual.

  15. What do the phrenologists mean, by not having assigned to their chart of the skull a place for play?

  16. Combe and other phrenologists are of opinion, that with this predominance a deficient development of hope and a large destructiveness must be conjoined.

  17. Phrenologists deny that instinct is a general faculty, and assert that it is an inherent disposition to activity possessed by every faculty, and that there are as many instincts as fundamental faculties.

  18. Phrenologists of course are of opinion that the judgment of colours resides in a particular organ, remarkably full and prominent in painters distinguished by the perfection of their colouring.

  19. The all important question is, not whether phrenologists have properly located and rightly earned all the faculties of mind, but have their expositions been useful in the development of truth.

  20. The organ of Hope lies on each side of Veneration; the mental faculty being altogether different from desire, led phrenologists to seek for a primitive organ, and thus the faculty has been identified with this portion of the brain.

  21. Next in order come what are called the Temperaments, by which term phrenologists designate the general classes into which individuals fit.

  22. It is short, and will at least be finished before the Phrenologists and Anti-Phrenologists there have finished their discussion.

  23. The false conclusions have been carefully put out of sight; and yet sufficient of them have come to the daylight to render the phrenologists ridiculous.

  24. For this reason many phrenologists have wisely turned physiognomists.

  25. In the consideration of both of these phases we must avail ourselves of the investigations and researches of the old phrenologists who cleared a path for all who follow.

  26. This Quality is not confined to mechanical construction, as the old phrenologists taught, but manifests itself in business literature, art, and in fact in every vocation or occupation.

  27. His family were totally without what the phrenologists call the organ of veneration.

  28. Practicing phrenologists have repeatedly been invited to submit one bit of objective evidence for their pretensions, or to submit themselves to tests under controlled conditions.

  29. In her character, what phrenologists call "destructiveness," in the comprehensive sense of the word, was superlatively developed.

  30. The gentlemen had never before received a correct description from phrenologists he had visited.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrenologists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.