Sentence examples for countenance with from inspiring English sources

He marches on, the momentum of the moment leaking from his countenance with every step.

They associate his countenance with savings banks, insurance companies, and the cautious serenities of Philadelphia.

"With a face like this, I guess I would have figured it out eventually," she said, framing her pale-skinned, blue-eyed countenance with her fingers.

Dostoevsky, on the other hand, made a subtle identification of the Don's battered, patient, sorrowful countenance with Christ himself, despised and rejected of men.

His dark-haired bohemian good looks mellowed into a leonine countenance with a fine mane of white hair and an imposing pair of horn-rimmed spectacles.

That gave tennis the odd specter of a ruthless pipsqueak, and it matched a frosty countenance with gorgeous shot-making.

Historically, the only sort of relationship the Middle Kingdom countenanced with the "barbarians" it came into contact with was receiving tribute from them; the urge to profit has led many nations to accept this bad deal, bargaining away their dignity with a kowtow.

It is a part of the play's irony that when the Duke countenances with grave philosophical calm the "going-forth" of Nature's virtues, he makes himself responsible, in the great casting of the play, for goings-forth from Angelo, Claudio and even Isabella and Mariana; these can be called virtue only by strenuous efforts of adjustment.

"That's a flexible standard, but the courts have said that it 'is to be narrowly construed and only reluctantly countenanced,' with its use 'limited to emergency situations.'" Procedurally, Bagley writes, "the administration still hasn't offered a cogent explanation for why it thinks it can amend an existing rule, and adopt a new one, without going through notice and comment.

The Devi Mahatmyam describes: Out of the surface of her (Durga's) forehead, fierce with frown, issued suddenly Kali of terrible countenance, armed with a sword and noose.

Yet at around the same time, the board that now deemed sexual sadism unacceptable in principle were prepared to countenance Antichrist, with its bloody semen extracted by forced masturbation, A Serbian Film, with its rape of a newborn baby, and I Spit on Your Grave, with its protracted scenes of rape and buggery.