Sentence examples for grave countenance from inspiring English sources

The king's grave countenance at this celebratory feast and the sardonic emphasis he brings to his reference to the "three crabbed months" required to win the love of his queen, Hermione (Kelly Hunter), suggest that seeds of mistrust have been planted in his heart long before now.

He replaced it with: "And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition… hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public".

Perched low, impassive, silent, and seemingly unmoved, it feigns obscurity and anonymity, but the upward avian thrust, grave countenance, and ghastly glare label it prophet of doom.

As an actor, Kemble's tall and imposing figure, impressive countenance, and grave and solemn demeanour made him uniquely suited for the Roman characters in Shakespeare's plays.

The other day, in the name of preserving the writ's dignity, the Court countenanced a grave injustice.

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.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven.

Fox is described by Ellwood as "graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation".

I do not know whether the English are gainers thereby; the joy which they seem in search of at those places does not beam through their countenances; they look as grave at Vauxhall and Ranelagh as at the Bank, at church, or a private club.

A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren't only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of "Islamic state" – despite the "grave danger" to Iraq's unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.

We cannot countenance this.