physiognomy
face reading

Either through natural physiognomy or learned control, it was a face that gave nothing away.

"I think it's just the natural physiognomy of my face."

Indeed, a skilled eye could read so much in their physiognomy.

The officer entered, a large fat man, with an open physiognomy.

His work focused on the physiognomy, time and cultural criticism.

Yet the man's expression was more startling than his physiognomy.

There seem to be two types of physiognomy amongst them.

You can really see the change in the physiognomy of a child who is admitted to our centre.

Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.

We don't know anything about their physiognomy, nor they ours.

It is now, at 50 years old, a physiognomy film makers find eloquent.

He was a great astrologer and an expert of physiognomy.

"I can see perhaps some family resemblance in the physiognomy, but you strike me as men of different character."

His face, too, was different from the usual gangland physiognomy.

One was a flattened nose that spread over the whole center of his physiognomy.

He came as close to a smile as his physiognomy allowed him.

This may have just been an accident of physiognomy.

I scanned his physiognomy, which varied as he spoke, yet was beautiful in every change.

A number of scholars have written on their physiognomy.

He believed strongly in physiognomy and his instincts were rarely wrong.

And - the alteration of the world's physiognomy continued; the end was not in sight.

They were the saving grace in an otherwise comic physiognomy.

In it, he declared that the city's unique physiognomy resulted from a few factors.

What matters here is the physiognomy of the shapes.

Isn't this taking physiognomy, in its first, most essential definition, too far?