Sentence examples for countenance from from inspiring English sources
"A lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature" ("Sense and Sensibility").
Then, in a moment of inspiration, the director of the group, the eminent Leipzig anatomist Wilhelm His, summoned the local sculptor Carl Ludwig Seffner to reconstruct Bach's countenance from the skull.
If the woman is wearing a shawl she takes a corner and flings it over her shoulder as if to say, One word or look from you, you ma-faced bitch, and I'll tear the countenance from the front of your head.
Ross Fisher also won a point, but more importantly from a European perspective he won it alongside Padraig Harrington – a victory over Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson that was the Irishman's first at the Ryder Cup since 2004 and, more to the point, transformed his countenance from morbid to euphoric, the quality of his golf from dangerously sporadic to intermittently great.
The enthroned figure of High responds, and (after scolding him for asking a question everyone knows the answer to) states that the father of Sumarr is Svásuðr, who is quite pleasant, while the father of Vetr is referred to as Vindsvalr or, alternately, Vindljóni, and that Vetr derives his countenance from his ancestors, as they are "cruel and cold-hearted kinsmen".
George Canning made it clear that "the House should understand that the doctrine of non-contagion had not received any countenance from His Majesty's Ministers," and he "hoped that the disciples of the damaging doctrine would keep such opinions a little more to themselves".
No one of the limitations alleged to be imposed by law on the absolute authority of Parliament has any real existence, or receives any countenance, either from the statute-book or from the practice of the Courts".
His countenance shifted from sorrow to fury when he added that he had heard that mosques, too, had been burned.
For a start, the European Union and Japan will not countenance demands from America, Australia and other leading farm-product exporters for far-reaching negotiations on agriculture.
Mr. Lowder was unwilling to countenance anyone from that company replacing him, Mr. Miller said, because his father, a company founder, had been deposed years before.
I think he's a decent bloke but like a lot of people who work deep within the system it's hard for him to countenance ideas from outside the narrowly prescribed trench of contemporary democracy.
