Sentence examples for a grim countenance from inspiring English sources
Big-nosed and popeyed, bald and mustachioed, Finlayson was a bratty grown-up with a grim countenance, just the sort of focused troublemaker who always lay in wait for the boys.
In the moments after the New England Patriots made N.F.L. history by finishing the regular season 16-0 Saturday night, even Coach Bill Belichick, whose grim countenance has become the franchise's public face, could not suppress a grin.
Sadr's grim countenance did not change.
There is something Jacobean in Carter's grim countenance, and in the methodical ruthlessness with which he tracks down the pornographers responsible for his brother's death and his niece's ruin.
Even Superman has grown up a bit: in trailers for Batman v Superman Henry Cavill exhibits a grim-faced countenance that would have had gentle giant Christopher Reeve running for the Kryptonian hills.
The 30 or so people on the observation deck were a mix of the merely curious, enthusiastic birders focusing their binoculars on the distant skies, and the very serious, dressed in camouflage, telescopes and tripods slung over their backs, heading off into the marshes with the grim countenances of soldiers going after an enemy sniper.
He understands that the conversations need something, since they're mostly poses for the two lead actors to assume, stances that quickly disintegrate into shouting matches while Mr. Hackman and Mr. Freeman lock their jaw lines into grim countenances.
It is both a fortress and a palace, thrusting a grim, forbidding face outward and an ornamented countenance inward.
That was a grim, grim day.
But it was also a grim reminder.
