Sentences with word «phrenologist»

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.

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.

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.»

You would make a good study - model for a phrenologist after all that beating your head against a wall.

No doubt this is largely true, but it is easy to fall into the phrenologist's fallacy.

Am a Phrenologist in Fortis Super Hospital.

It will not be advanced by name - calling or declaring that anyone who thinks that teleconnections exist is a «phrenologist».

Phrenologists were even on the winning side of an important scientific debate concerning a central concept of brain anatomy and function.

(OK, maybe it does of a phrenologist but I dare say most wannabe JD types aren't going to justify their views on the basis that they are at least as educated as a phrenologist.)