Sentence examples for quite countenance from inspiring English sources

As successful as he became, Mr. Jacques could never quite countenance a life in which labor meant sitting in his garden, under an apple tree, with a typewriter.

By contrast, Theresa May looks and sounds exactly like she ought to be British Prime Minister: stirring up some primal identification with authority by being every bit as stern and well-turned-out and unable to quite countenance any flights of energy or imagination as a primary school headmistress.

The series was first shown in BBC America, which makes me wonder if US investment meant simply that the money was available to buff things up a bit or whether the original plan was for realism but nobody across the Atlantic was prepared to countenance quite how poor and ugly Britain really was in the 70s.

But no one has plied this sullen, sexy countenance in quite the way Richard Foreman does in "Maria del Bosco," his latest existential carnival of a play for his Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

Everton and chairman Bill Kenwright certainly stood their ground firmly, getting a very respectable fee for Fellaini and quite simply refusing to countenance the sale of Baines.

Quite rightly, they will not countenance the death penalty.

None in the modern era, though, did so at such a tender age – a mere 21 years and 69 days – or with quite such a choirboy's countenance.

Yet "it is quite unthinkable that the ravaged countenance of an Australian black could suddenly pop up on Neighbours", judged Germaine Greer, possibly indulging in a bit of stereotyping of her own.

What none of the Gutenbergers are able to countenance, because it is quite literally – for once the intensifier is justified – out of their minds, is that the advent of digital media is not simply destructive of the codex, but of the Gutenberg mind itself.

It is quite remarkable that Congress would openly countenance such disrespect for its own laws.

I think it's true that over the years, the human faces in the land that's colder than Mars accrue the same staggered aging effects as the trees: a weathered, frozen countenances that haven't quite taken on the consistency of elm bark but have been marked by patterns of weather more harsh and vigorous than elsewhere.