Sentence examples for in physiognomy from inspiring English sources

The development of a more accurate anatomy in the 17th century seems to have dampened the scientific interest in physiognomy.

Many South Koreans also believe in physiognomy — the notion that a person's personality and fate can be "read" in the shape of the eyes, nose, ears and forehead.

This negative portrayal of people with visible physical differences stems back to Aristotle and ancient Greece, and has roots in physiognomy — a pseudoscience claiming a person's physical appearance represents their moral character.

Through a family friend he became acquainted with Leonardo, whose interest in physiognomy — particularly his sketches of old men and women with grotesque faces — seems to have rubbed off on him.

Lavater's studies in physiognomy and his interest in "magnetic" trance conditions had their source in his religious beliefs, which drove him to search for demonstrable traces of the divine in human life.

And Kafka did write an article, in which, as Mr. Demetz puts it, he "did not want to sacrifice his personal attitudes, his special imagery, or his almost obsessive interest in physiognomy and gesture".

We were able to map carbon distributions within the selected study areas, whereat higher uncertainties were identified in physiognomies and related carbon values that were not well represented by the field sampling.

Sharrona Pearl (in "About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain". Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press) makes an additional point.

In the present study, gradient mapping was used in a more heterogeneous landscape with intricate environmental gradients and higher variation in vegetation physiognomy.

Consequently, changes in vegetation physiognomy, such as mesquite encroachment, have broad implications for landuse management especially in regard to reliable water supplies in arid and semi-arid environments.

It is also a profession, much like Dano's, in which physiognomy dictates opportunity.