countenance
Example Sentences
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For “what else has a council ever been,” the pope asked, “but a renewal of this meeting with the countenance of the risen Christ?”
The aim, colleges and advisers explain, is to probe how well students can countenance other viewpoints.
The wolf swept its glowing eyes ’round the room and took in each terrified countenance.
From Literature
The goal is to immerse yourself as the sun rises, its immense fiery countenance parallel along the horizon to your shivering little head.
But this flexibility with the case’s facts is one of many acts of distancing that aid in countenancing the unthinkable.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
