countenance
Example Sentences
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The aim, colleges and advisers explain, is to probe how well students can countenance other viewpoints.
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
"Perhaps some listeners will view it as too personal to countenance. Or perhaps fans who have grown up alongside Allen, now 40, will find something profoundly relatable in the story it has to tell."
From BBC
Reflecting on the decision, Georgia says the group couldn't countenance "singing Nothing Matters and dancing around in our outfits at a place where a flag is seen as an act of political violence".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
