Sentence examples for but cannot countenance from inspiring English sources

We are left with the consideration that some culturemongers are content to watch violence on stage, but cannot countenance a glimpse of pubic hair.

Of course, because this is the benign, literary version, the apparatchiks and ideologues are all Pushkin devotees who cannot countenance anything but utter devotion to the literary idol.

But is there a timeframe beyond which even you cannot countenance?

But in the next section, he states categorically that the church cannot countenance same-sex marriages or unions, citing the second synod's final report, which said "there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family".

I had limited interaction with him, but biographers tell me Rourke was a heroin user, another sort of person I cannot countenance.

I cannot countenance an indefinite walkout.

I cannot countenance the idea of it closing.

The government cannot countenance cutting credit lines to all at once.

While it's an unfortunate incident, it's something that the G.O.P cannot countenance".

I cannot countenance an indefinite walkout," said Dr Ben Norris, a junior doctor in general medicine in the south of England.

One morning, after Maggie pushes it too far, Mary Rose is blindsided by a rage she cannot countenance.