Sentence examples for countenance in from inspiring English sources

The problem is that it underscored what has too often been his countenance in office.

You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life.

But the president's countenance in the debate resulted in an unexpected line of questioning from reporters.

And he says it while waving goodbye to Britain's steel industry, in a way Angela Merkel would not countenance in Germany.

Anyone who has been horrified at encountering their glum, ill-prepared countenance in a shop window will know what he means.

And Mr. Hanks's shaggy countenance in "Cast Away" transformed him into an archetype of self-reliance, a man to count on in a pinch.

Fox is described by Ellwood as "graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation".

Father Thomas Stanney wrote that Garnet was "the prime scholar of Winchester College, very skilful in music and in playing upon the instruments, very modest in his countenance and in all his actions, so much that the schoolmasters and wardens offered him very great friendship, to be placed by their means in New College, Oxford".

No such refusal should be countenanced in the future.

"Cheating is not merely countenanced in baseball," Mr.Thorn said.

Mr. Griffith had a sensitive countertenor soloist — something Beecham would never have countenanced — in Nicholas Tamagna.