Sentence examples similar to understanding countenance from inspiring English sources

So, his pale, unshaven, red-eyed countenance is understandable.

When Porsenna saw the maiden returned, demanding who was the author and adviser of the act, and understanding Cloelia to be the person, he looked on her with a cheerful and benignant countenance, and, commanding one of his horses to be brought, sumptuously adorned, made her a present of it.

By showing how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust.

At the same time he is likely to be remembered as one who, because of political circumstances and his understanding of them, could not enter the corridors of power without personal betrayal of a kind he could not countenance.

I think of them when I look at those pictures of nail houses: there is a shared sense of defiance, a refusal to countenance the idea that a dollar value could or should be placed on what we call home, and an understanding that places and people interact in ways that transcend the crude mercantile system under which we live.

We cannot countenance this.

I couldn't countenance that.

Ryan has a sterner countenance.

Would Cameron countenance that?

His countenance quickly changed.

The scowling countenance!