Sentence examples similar to evil countenance from inspiring English sources

To Rudyard Kipling, it was a "city of evil countenances".

Evil, evil, evil.

And its lessons about the cost of remaining passive in the face of evil, of countenancing bigotry and of betraying friends bear reinforcement in any season.

Did he encourage or countenance it?

While most of Vichy's leaders were Catholic nationalists — willing, culpably enough, to countenance the old evil of exclusion, but not the new one of extermination — Darquier was more extreme, a Hitlerite.

Utopianism is evil not only because it countenances real suffering today in the name of abstract justice tomorrow.

But a defeat in his first public test would be an evil omen, making the army even less willing to countenance his liberalisation plans for Spain.

Boardman, too, does not countenance any criticism, warning: "I hope this is not some kind of evil exposé about how all astrology is lying, because all my fashion people and I will hunt you down and kill you".