In the 1830s, phrenologists believed head bumps could reveal a criminal personality — often, prostitutes and the poor were said to have bumps that marked them as deviants from birth. (downloadtheuniverse.com)
An armchair phrenologist with a foppish burgundy suit and a cigarette holder, his nervous eyes darting incestuously at his widowed sister, Candie is the least premeditated DiCaprio has ever seemed in a movie — Tarantino has a gift for freeing performers from their self - imposed actorly prisons. (villagevoice.com)
After all, in the nineteenth century phrenologists published scores of articles and books claiming to show that the brains of «inferior» races were smaller or differently shaped from the «ideal.» (discovermagazine.com)