Sentence examples similar to pleasing countenance from inspiring English sources
Half a century ago, R.H. Tawney likened Labour governments to those nice bachelors who stray into her novels of whom Jane Austen can find nothing more interesting to say than that "his countenance was pleasing and his manners gentleman-like".
Asked by Arly, "Are you for religion, young Will, Willll answers, as naturally as you please, "I never did countenance it".
One evening a person took a seat near him, whose countenance did not please.
Aristides refused to countenance this; conversely Themistocles was not pleased that only 100 ships would be built.
His general countenance says, "I'm loving it," but his haywire jaw is silently screaming "PLEASE GET ME HOME, I NEED TO BE AT HOME, IN BED, VERY SOON, PLEASE, PLEASE, I TOLD THE WIFE I'D BE BACK BY 1, OH GOD, I'VE FUCKED IT, THE MOTHER IN LAW'S BIRTHDAY'S TOMORROW AND I'VE ROYALLY FUCKED IT".
I couldn't countenance that.
Ryan has a sterner countenance.
We cannot countenance this.
Would Cameron countenance that?
His countenance quickly changed.
The scowling countenance!
