Sentence examples for melancholy countenance from inspiring English sources
Oubiña has a shaggy dark hair and a melancholy countenance, even when he's greatly amused.
Early melodramas, too, often had a gothic theme: a "tall female figure with a pale and melancholy countenance" appeared from behind folding doors in MG Lewis's 1797 play The Castle Spectre, a bloodstain slowly spreading across her white dress.
Over the last decade his anxious, melancholy countenance — the difference between mild concern and existential agony can be measured in the angle of his frown — has lent intelligence and gravity to films directed by Jacques Rivette, Marco Bellocchio and Mr. Castellitto himself.
Melville was a compulsive researcher, but his attitude to documents and records has a humane, if melancholy, aspect which Parker simply couldn't countenance.
It takes a good actor to play the part of a serious man... On the countenances of our greatest Chief Executives since George Washington, the photographers & painters of Civil War times almost always found & recorded melancholy and brooding expressions.
I couldn't countenance that.
Ryan has a sterner countenance.
Would Cameron countenance that?
His countenance quickly changed.
