Sentence examples for countenance he from inspiring English sources

"He doesn't even attempt to countenance he might have committed a breach and done something wrong".

What it is no longer prepared to countenance, he says, is "equal misery for all".

Seated behind a microphone with camera lights deepening the shadows across his dour and ascetic countenance, he continued to deflect questions politely.

Though dour of countenance, he is a kindly man, the father of somewhere between nine and thirteen children — Clarke has lost count — and an expert in making Ceylonese curry, which is likely to incinerate the palate of any unsuspecting Westerner.

Although proud of countenance, he lacks Eubank Sr's peacock swagger.

Sixty-eight years old, a huge belly, and a droopy countenance, he probably resembled to some of the jurors their uncle.

When Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, was asked whether he would countenance waterboarding, he said that "what we do in order to get the information that we need is our business," as though there were no international Convention Against Torture, or simple ethical constraints.

Demis Hassabis has a modest demeanour and an unassuming countenance, but he is deadly serious when he tells me he is on a mission to "solve intelligence, and then use that to solve everything else".

He acquired a professorial countenance as he explained how operators decoded the sounds transmitted over the wire.

A more agonized expression I never saw on a human countenance as he sobbed out the words: "He belongs to the angels now".

Nothing about his countenance suggests he was serious about this in the last fight he promoted for Ali, he shortchanged the champion $1.2 million.