Sentence examples for dour countenance from inspiring English sources
In a sport that venerates the sleepless control freak, Dungy was a man apart, unfailingly positive, eschewing the dour countenance so prevalent on the sideline.
DC is that God and there are many chiseling at its dour countenance.
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.
Seated behind a microphone with camera lights deepening the shadows across his dour and ascetic countenance, he continued to deflect questions politely.
So far, the puzzle pieces leave little doubt that Mr. Kim is trying to forge a very different leadership style than his father, Kim Jong-il, whose countenance was dour enough to merit ribbing by the creators of South Park.
The only negative effect of this logjam of small-scale delights is to somewhat swamp the normally potent presence of Brolin, notionally in the lead role, whose brooding countenance and dour forcefulness gets little purchase in the film.
As soon as an inventive musical -- upbeat in theme, dour and, in its own words, woeful in countenance -- arrived in New York, at the since demolished ANTA Washington Square Theater, it appeared destined to go down as a flop.
I couldn't countenance that.
Ryan has a sterner countenance.
