Sentence examples for austere countenance from inspiring English sources

But she had a long, straight nose, light eyes, high cheekbones, and an austere countenance.

Woo has one of those marvellously austere Chinese faces, a countenance forged by hard work and pride.

See Frege 1914 for a defense of the austere view that, in mathematics at least, only stipulative definitions should be countenanced.[1] Descriptive definitions, like stipulative ones, spell out meaning, but they also aim to be adequate to existing usage.

Her expression is austere.

I couldn't countenance that.

Ryan has a sterner countenance.

"Really austere.

Austere, yes.

We cannot countenance this.

These are austere times.

Would Cameron countenance that?