Sentence examples for woeful countenance from inspiring English sources
Mr. Lithgow, with an appropriately woeful countenance, looks as brittle and gaunt as an El Greco figure.
In pursuit of right and glory, this "knight of the woeful countenance" struggles to exemplify the chivalric tradition by "adding a measure of grace to the world".
The winner of back-to-back Tony Awards, first as a featured and then as leading actor for the two successive plays that make up "Angels in America," Mr. Spinella is a tall, tensile figure with a gray-stubbled, woeful countenance and a supple voice.
Barbara Walsh conveys the woeful countenance of Sonia ("I haven't lived") so tellingly that the character's eventual sparks of assertiveness and optimism have extra impact.
As soon as an inventive musical -- upbeat in theme, dour and, in its own words, woeful in countenance -- arrived in New York, at the since demolished ANTA Washington Square Theater, it appeared destined to go down as a flop.
I couldn't countenance that.
Ryan has a sterner countenance.
