Sentence examples for open countenance from inspiring English sources

She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner.

Cardus described him as "a sturdy cricketer, not tall, but his sloping bottle-neck shoulders seemed to add inches to him and he had long arms of impressive thickness, veined with strength at the wrist; also he was broad in the beam, with a rubicund smile on his cheerful open countenance".

Audiences responded not only to the voice but also to the face — that bright, open, generous countenance.

Audiences responded not only to the voice but also to the face that bright, open, generous countenance.

Distinguished by a thick shock of hair and by an open, sturdy countenance, he called himself a peasant but probably came from a literate, land-owning farm family.

According to a copy of the brief secured by the Washington Post, they say that the constitution "cannot countenance an open-ended presidential power with no civilian review whatsoever".

The Constitution cannot countenance an open-ended Presidential power, with no civilian review whatsoever, to try anyone the President deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself".

Furthermore, SAS warns that anyone open-minded enough to countenance the proposition that either individually or in combination, some hi-tech additives, ingredients and processing aids in our diet are causing us problems, could be putting their child's health at risk.

No more than the minimum departure from open justice will be countenanced".

But Ferguson would never have admitted such weakness in public, just as he would never have countenanced such open revolt from his star names.

They clearly can't countenance any kind of open investigation.