My own parents are good-looking people – the hereditary hideousness has passed over them, although the grim Victorian lines of it still find some echoes in my own radio-friendly countenance.
The facades I employed in life served my decrepit countenance even better in death.
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.
Fox is described by Ellwood as "graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation".
First, observation of the effects of another person's "affection" and its outward expressions in his "countenance and conversation" conveys the idea of his passion into my mind.
She also took aim at the United Nations in her nonfiction, most notably in "Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case" (1990), a follow-up to a series of magazine articles she had written beginning in 1980 examining allegations that world powers had been complicit in covering up Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past before his rise to secretary general.
As I read A Crack in Creation, I was reminded of Benjamin Franklin's "benevolent man", who, he wrote, "should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance" — and, I would add, to give him- or herself more depth.
The suffering is not there in her countenance.
"She's got something in her countenance that makes you want to look at her".
When Corrales turned, there was a discernible change in his countenance.
