Sentence examples for a physiognomy from inspiring English sources

As soon as you grasp a physiognomy, it has gone.

And who had ever seen such a physiognomy as that possessed by Phineas Breeley?

The rule obtains in the political and the recreational realms alike: there is, as it were, a physiognomy of fortune, and sooner or later it alters.

Television mini-series are notable for casting lookalikes, and with a physiognomy as celebrated as Monroe's that factor might have been paramount.

His noble qualities, his reluctant acts of heroism, can seem adornments of a character more than its configuration: more a mask than a physiognomy.

But it is the British screen that Marsan has truly made his own, thanks to a physiognomy that fits any epoch – whether in last year's 1970s-set Channel 4 trilogy Red Riding, as the driven rent-collector Pancks in 2008's BBC adaptation of Little Dorritt, or as an irascible but staunch Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's revisionist Sherlock Holmes.

She is gifted with a wonderful physiognomy and figure for dance: large, dark eyes; a small head; and a strikingly slender waist above powerful legs, with, as they say, curves in all the right places.

Although he's a typical computer-generated mild marvel, with fluid gestures and a believable physiognomy, Paul proves the weak link.

This ancestral hydraulic system gave a peculiar physiognomy to the economic life of the palm; it is a difficult and expensive means of irrigation.

"Jews were given a characteristic physiognomy," Lipton notes, "well before biological racism permeated European thought".

[9] The very cleverest hands at preparing a false physiognomy for the camera have made their grimaces in vain.