We got off the plane – a Turkish Airlines Airbus, because our insurance companies had not countenanced our travelling by Iran Air – and joined the queue for passport control.
"I asked them to make it enough to make it sting and to send a clear message that the taking of life in this fashion is not something that we will countenance in our society," Mr. Brewington said.
And we must not countenance, within our own borders, practices that would make it difficult or impossible to exercise the right for which so many have given so much.
Lawless methods of law enforcement are frequently effective in uncovering crime, especially where tyranny reigns, but they are not to be countenanced under our form of government.
It takes a good actor to play the part of a serious man... On the countenances of our greatest Chief Executives since George Washington, the photographers & painters of Civil War times almost always found & recorded melancholy and brooding expressions.
"A man comes to our house, and custom requires that our countenance should brighten, and that we should say we are glad to see him," he wrote in "The Cotton Kingdom".
While the surface -- our skin and public countenance -- might not "crack," our psyche and our bodies do.
We don't countenance these defects in our employees, but we sometimes do in our star athletes, CEOs, and one presidential candidate.
What hit me was the sense that an honest bargain had been struck between aesthetic artifice and real life, such as the Victorians could not countenance and we, in our frantically posturing art, have lost.
