Sentence examples for mournful countenance from inspiring English sources
Only we the viewers see his genius: Molesley is Downton's Stan Laurel, the embodiment of the comically mournful countenance.
To Leith's honorably questing figure, he is the knight of the mournful countenance; a symbol of war's post-traumatic defeat.
The movie starred the wily character actor Harry Dean Stanton (and his mournful countenance) in the role of Bud, an existential philosopher who happens to make a living repossessing cars for the Helping Hands Acceptance Company in Los Angeles.
The tidy paperback volume, exactly seven hundred pages of smallish Trump Mediaeval, with a warm and informative introduction by Francisco Goldman, has the supple heft of a newborn classic, a latter-day "Don Quixote" whose central persona, both amusingly shadowy and adamantly consistent, moves around the globe somewhat as the Knight of the Mournful Countenance traversed the plains of Spain.
The once pure Angelica (his Dulcinea) has become a high-class call-girl and the man who played Don Quixote has gone so far into method acting that he believes he is a "Knight of the Mournful Countenance". A series of accidents leads to chaos, police chases and near death experiences that blur the line between fantasy and reality.
Mournful, wintry, gentle.
He looked slightly mournful.
I couldn't countenance that.
