Sentence examples for physiognomy from inspiring English sources

To have the same chance of getting one as those deemed most trustworthy they were required to pay an interest rate that was, on average, 1.82 percentage points higher, even when the effects of historical creditworthiness were statistically eliminated.For trustworthiness, then, physiognomy works.

A growing body of research suggests that their preference for certain types of male physiognomy may be swayed by things beyond their conscious control like prevalence of disease or crime and in predictable ways.Masculine features a big jaw, say, or a prominent brow tend to reflect physical and behavioural traits, such as strength and aggression.

One used a peer-to-peer moneylending site to show that a person's physiognomy is a reliable predictor of his creditworthiness (see article).

Shifty physiognomy, it seems, is independent of these things.That shiftiness was also recognised by those whose money was actually at stake.

THESE days, physiognomy is an unfashionable science.

Later his criminal adversaries were grotesque villains of repulsive physiognomy with such self-descriptive names as Pruneface, Flyface, the Mole, Wormy, the Blank, Laffy, and Rhodent.

Italy attained a unified ethnolinguistic, political, and cultural physiognomy only after the Roman conquest, yet its most ancient peoples remain anchored in the names of the regions of Roman Italy Latium, Campania, Apulia, Bruttium, Lucania, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Venetia, and Liguria.

Yet, in spite of minor variations, all these figures adhere to the single formula of presenting the conventional characteristics of Sumerian physiognomy.

His intention was twofold: to see if physiognomy-based prejudices about creditworthiness existed and, if they did, whether they were justified.

For years physiognomy the idea that a person's face is a reflection of his character was sneered at.

She failed to rechristen the Chamber of Horrors (Punch's tag) the Chamber of Comparative Physiognomy.