George Edward Woodberry

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

American Critic

Christopher Hitchens

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

American Author

Thomas Fuller

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

English Clergyman

Used primarily in literature to give a detailed image of a character's facial expression or emotions.

Literary Tone

Context often uses visage to reveal a character's internal state or personality.

Character Insight

Visage is useful for implying subtle emotional changes that may not be directly stated.

Conveys Subtlety

Visage can lend human characteristics to inanimate objects or scenery.

Personifies Objects

Authors use it to describe the overall appearance and emotion of a setting.

Descriptive Scenery

Visage helps convey a particular quality or essence of a scene or object.

Imbues Quality

 called, "Turkana Boy" of Homo Erectus. And there, you can see a relatively human-like visage. There on the right, is that almost, without being derogatory pin-headed look of Homo naledi, with its very strange profile. And it is not an aberrancy because we have multiple individuals and they all look exactly alike.

Discovering Homo Naledi:...

 Because behind their seemingly unassuming visages reside two deceitful offerings that smother the truth. These words are liars. These words must be stopped. Remove them from our language so that honesty can return to our communication. Ladies and gentlemen,

The case against "good"...

 and so I chose to let her in on a few other things which locate me as a Motswana, not just by virtue of the fact that I speak a language or I have family there, but that a rural child lives within this shiny visage of fabulosity.

Visage

Literary Tone

Character Insight

Conveys Subtlety

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