countenance

IPA: kˈaʊntʌnʌns

Examples of "countenance" in Sentences

Sometimes, not always, the countenance is the index of the mind.
Members found this theatre many some-more engaging in countenance of feeling than progressing scenes.
'I do not doubt it,' replied the other, your countenance is a letter of recommendation to every heart. '
He went out and returned, wan of face, changed in countenance and with his side-muscles a-quivering; so I asked him, ‘What aileth thee?’
What he most certainly refuses to countenance is a way out of the genetic deadlock and instead he embraces the endless loop of historical repetition.
Your countenance, Miss Lake -- you must pardon my frankness, it is my way -- _your countenance_ tells only too plainly that you now comprehend my allusion. '
Why is this that Baldêo should be always represented of this countenance and colour, and his brother Krishna, either white, or of an azure colour, and the _Caucasian countenance_? [
Would McCain countenance the British PM meeting with Ahmadinejad, while excoriating Obama for having expressed a view that he would meet with someone like Ahmadinejad without preconditions??
When Moses says, "his countenance fell," (the word countenance is in Hebrew put in the plural number for the singular,) he means, that not only was he seized with a sudden vehement anger, but that, from a lingering sadness, he cherished a feeling so malignant that he was wasting with envy.