But Quinto is fine as the conflicted Vulcan, those caterpillar eyebrows the single expressive part of his phiz.
There are words — you could lip-read them later — and the big catcher shoves his mitt into the famous phiz, touching off the benches and igniting the stands.
(He jeered at abbreviated forms like phiz for physiognomy, rep for reputation, and mob for the Latin phrase mobile vulgus).
I felt a sudden, instinctive lurch – the thought of my phiz besmirching every hairdresser's salon and dentist's waiting room.
The vagueness of the notion, like that of the supernatural halo he discerns behind the grinning phiz of Mozart, hints at an uncertainty for which rhetoric must make sonorous, empty amends.
He looked hard at the stranger, and spat on the floor as if he had seen a toad; then glanced at the newspaper, then again at the intruder, and spat again, his hair bristling gradually into more shaggy ferocity, till he closed the alternation of spitting and staring, by fairly exclaiming, 'What a scoundrelly phiz!' and rushing out of the room.
Members of the Ugly Face Clubb, which operated in Liverpool, England, were accepted by vote, the main requirement being "something odd, remarkable, droll, or out of the way in his phiz".
Larry Hynes (@IpsTypographus) took aim at both insult comedy and plastic surgery, building in infernally clever internal rhymes ("A phiz so reviz that it gives one the shivers / Joan Rivers").
There are words you could lip-read them later and the big catcher shoves his mitt into the famous phiz, touching off the benches and igniting the stands.
