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Example sentences for "physiognomical"

Lexicographically close words:
physics; physikalische; physikalischen; physiocratic; physiognomic; physiognomies; physiognomist; physiognomists; physiognomy; physiographic
  1. Family physiognomical resemblance is as undeniable as national physiognomical resemblance.

  2. Some of the principal physiognomical contrasts may be summarised here.

  3. As a recent writer tersely puts it 'The physiognomical feeling and sensation will never die out among people, for the roots lie deep in human nature.

  4. Then, with a physiognomical hurricane on his countenance, he stepped up before her and said, showing the weapon, he would kill himself here in the hall, if she rejected him.

  5. Her head was full of good physiognomical fragments; and Lavater's objection, that most physiognomists unfortunately study nothing in the whole man but the face, could not hit in any point her pure physiognomical sense.

  6. There are some twenty figures in relief, and each face has its own physiognomical distinctiveness, each head its phrenological peculiarities, all as carefully portrayed as if Lavater and Spurzheim had watched over the work.

  7. That building may be regarded as the physiognomical monument of George IV.

  8. I had now a glorious opportunity of following Lavater's counsel, to apply the physiognomical ellwand specially to sleepers, since sleep, like death, expresses the genuine form in coarser lines.

  9. It is meagre in form, wretched in physiognomical expression, and marked by disgusting appearances of blood about the forehead and throat.

  10. His figure and physiognomical expression bespoke a rapid approach to the grand climacteric of human life.

  11. For though this of painting is one of the outermost developments of a man, it comes like all else from the essential faculty of him; it is physiognomical of the whole man.

  12. All that a man does is physiognomical of him.

  13. As, however, the abundance of the cellular tissue diminishes with age, and as the sentiments become at the same time less ephemeral, the physiognomical character and expression of woman become more decided.

  14. The explanation of the physiognomical character of the different kinds of the hair.

  15. Elementary beauty is preferred to that of adaptation to climate, fitness for physiognomical expression, &c.

  16. Those whom these remarks dispose to do so, may refer to the physiognomical work, which I have been so often compelled to allude to.

  17. My physiognomical observation was kept fully on the stretch, and was never, before or since, so sated with materials to work on.

  18. This collection of physiognomical correspondence, if it does really exist, would form a curious publication; we have heard nothing of it!

  19. Chapter I of Part I contains a detailed description of the principal physiognomical anomalies of the criminal that may be discerned by the naked eye.

  20. In some particulars, perhaps the most imposing physiognomical view to be had of the Sperm Whale, is that of the full front of his head.

  21. As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled.

  22. We have had the same physiognomical or character-telling fishes that you described to Honora.

  23. My father entertained the Edwards with the history of his physiognomical guesses in a stage-coach.

  24. When he comes before the physiognomical tribunal, we must melt him down.

  25. You shall have my physiognomical remarks upon them.

  26. In my Adumbrating Magic-lantern, as I have named the Work, the whole physiognomical contents of this same sleeping stage-coach will be given to the world.

  27. As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jollyboat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled.

  28. He shows what a large amount of material having physiognomical contents we keep in mind.

  29. One of Hans Virchow's very detailed physiognomical observations concerning the expression of interest in the eyes by means of the pupil, has very considerable physiognomical value.

  30. Nobody will, of course, assert that even a completely developed physiognomical science will help us over all our difficulties, but with a little attention it can help us to a considerable degree.

  31. Thus it is that every diversity of character has its correspondence in both the organic texture and physiognomical form.

  32. That would, I suggested, go something beyond Lavater's physiognomical skill.

  33. Though we were created after the image of God, many theorists establish physiognomical analogies between man and the animal race.

  34. Study Lavater, therefore, and practice his art as a recreation among friends; but make no serious conclusions drawn from physiognomical rules, which abound in contradictions.

  35. At this moment, my physiognomical convictions are so strong that I decide upon certain faces with as absolute a certainty as of my existence.


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