phrenologically

The pigeon – pie was not bad, but it was a delusive pie: the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

David Copperfield 2007

The idea of a discrete brain age is about as phrenologically suspect as the increasingly-disputed concept of IQ itself.

Brain Teasers 2006

There are ‘systems’ made up of several interconnected brain units; anatomically, but not functionally, those brain units are none other than the old ‘centers’ of phrenologically inspired theory; and these systems are indeed dedicated to relatively separable operations that constitute the basis of mental functions.

Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

There are ‘systems’ made up of several interconnected brain units; anatomically, but not functionally, those brain units are none other than the old ‘centers’ of phrenologically inspired theory; and these systems are indeed dedicated to relatively separable operations that constitute the basis of mental functions.

Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

There are ‘systems’ made up of several interconnected brain units; anatomically, but not functionally, those brain units are none other than the old ‘centers’ of phrenologically inspired theory; and these systems are indeed dedicated to relatively separable operations that constitute the basis of mental functions.

Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

There are ‘systems’ made up of several interconnected brain units; anatomically, but not functionally, those brain units are none other than the old ‘centers’ of phrenologically inspired theory; and these systems are indeed dedicated to relatively separable operations that constitute the basis of mental functions.

Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The more particular speciality of one is to lubricate your entrance and exit, -- that of the other to polish you off phrenologically in the recesses of the establishment.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

"You won't want to examine it phrenologically, will you?"

The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand