Sentence examples for sorrowful countenance from inspiring English sources

His hero, the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, the man of La Mancha, is also Shakespearean.

Mr. Depp's sorrowful countenance is the still point at the center of this film's swirling hyperactivity, and his witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn.

Many fictions and scenarios have depended upon a male double-act, usually enriched by contrast as in the case of Holmes and Watson or Bertie and Jeeves, or of course the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance and his rotund and pragmatic squire.

"Natural signs are those which, apart from any intention or desire of using them as signs, do yet lead to the knowledge of something else",[8] as, for example, smoke when it indicates fire, the footprint of an animal passing by, or the countenance of an angry or sorrowful man.

The Sorrowful Face stares out at us in his portrait, a countenance wholly unlike Shakespeare's subtle blandness.

"Her face was sorrowful.

2. Rare, archaic: sorrowful.

Or simply sorrowful?

Just puzzled and sorrowful".

I couldn't countenance that.

Ryan has a sterner countenance.