"If you judge by his countenance, that showed he meant it," Mr. Sarr said.
She is as unknowable as Rebecca, a riddle with a countenance that is sometimes 'small and narrow, a face upon a coin'.
LEHI, Utah — Mia Love stared straight ahead, her face etched into the sort of camera-ready countenance that takes many politicians years to master, as yet another Republican luminary extolled her virtues at a news conference.
Even Superman has grown up a bit: in trailers for Batman v Superman Henry Cavill exhibits a grim-faced countenance that would have had gentle giant Christopher Reeve running for the Kryptonian hills.
But once Marc Kudisch, the Broadway veteran, makes his entrance — wearing all black, weighed down with stringy hair, a scruffy beard and a countenance that seems like a variation on Jeff Bridges's Dude persona — he has us, like Orgon, in the palm of his hand.
As he unloaded luggage and pillows from the car, Roethlisberger was smiling and ultrapolite, a departure from the sometimes-distant, sometimes-smirking countenance that used to grate reporters, even telling a cluster to be careful because he did not want to hit anybody with one of his bags.
But if some undecided voters — in Jersey or elsewhere — were to get the impression from watching this get-together on the tube that the forty-fourth President is a fine, upstanding gent, who gets up early each morning to further the interests of ordinary, hard-working Americans — well, judging by Christie's remarks and his over-all countenance, that would be just fine by him.
The dark-haired, owlish countenance that was once among the most recognizable faces in music has become pale, almost snowy white.
We see his Frank Galvin go through a virtual kaleidoscope of human emotions from the opening shot: Galvin playing pinball in the seedy bar he calls his second home with a countenance that suggests slow death, to the final image of him staring at a ringing phone with ambivalence.
I couldn't countenance that.
Would Cameron countenance that?
