Sentence examples for a serious countenance from inspiring English sources

He appears to be in his thirties, and he stares down from the wall with a serious countenance, a sharply groomed mustache, a tall, stiff collar, a tie pin.

As the boy watched the priest deliver the sermon, Hardy recalled in his autobiography, "some mischievous movement of his mind set him imagining that the vicar was preaching mockingly, and he began trying to trace a humorous twitch in the corners of Mr. S — 's mouth, as if he could hardly keep a serious countenance.

As the boy watched the priest deliver the sermon, Hardy recalled in his autobiography, "some mischievous movement of his mind set him imagining that the vicar was preaching mockingly, and he began trying to trace a humorous twitch in the corners of Mr. S—'s mouth, as if he could hardly keep a serious countenance.

Manny Machado signing gives San Diego Padres a serious countenance….

The Queen described Karim in her diary for that day: "The other, much younger, is much lighter [than Buksh], tall, and with a fine serious countenance.

Do not grow extra mature and old with your age, having serious countenance all the time will cause distances between you and your children.

No European policymaker seems willing to countenance a serious haircut on Greek debt yet, for fear that it undermines confidence elsewhere.

It takes a good actor to play the part of a serious man... On the countenances of our greatest Chief Executives since George Washington, the photographers & painters of Civil War times almost always found & recorded melancholy and brooding expressions.

The book should have provoked a serious debate in which progressives dared to countenance the extent to which opposition to immigration might be more reasonable than they usually suppose.

Mr Straw had come to believe that the refusal to countenance a referendum was turning into a serious problem.

Coe, a staunch advocate of longer bans for drug cheats, conceded that it was unlikely that the World Anti-Doping Agency would countenance a ban longer than four years for a serious first offence.