countenance

It's hard to imagine how Elkann and Vigna could or would countenance any situation where they were removed from any input into the F1 team.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

When he speaks of Likho, he speaks with a tender cadence and dignified countenance, as if he were his own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

But despite soundtracking 128 episodes worth of hormonal melodrama, Cole’s song most immediately evokes one image: the devilishly handsome, All-American countenance of the show’s star, James Van Der Beek.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

There was no way Ratcliffe would countenance extending that at a time when he is determined to cut costs and bring the wage bill down.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

The gray-haired man turned his head again toward the girl, perhaps to show her how forbearing, even stoic, his countenance was.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

The settings do not merely suggest sterility but concentrate the mind on the performers’ fascinating countenances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

These striking works center on modeled, black-and-white countenances in front of flat blossoms, also monochromatic but sometimes overlaid with color.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

“There’s a spirit moving between the two countenances that feels revelatory.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Some of us, though, will be suspicious of anything that countenances the missing of even the smallest part of a film.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019

They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I’ve countenanced the strong plots because these books are so good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

It understood its sector — venture capitalists and technology start-ups — and made loans that national banks would never have countenanced.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Because it is outrageous that such a wealthy city has countenanced inhuman living conditions like this for years.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Ms. Notz, though, said the founders never countenanced the idea of revocation so those shouldn’t count.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

To places that didn’t share a border with slave states, had never countenanced the abomination of slavery.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

But this flexibility with the case’s facts is one of many acts of distancing that aid in countenancing the unthinkable.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

Even this court, though, can hopefully still be shamed from countenancing the worst abuses of power likely to come before them.

From Slate ● May 18, 2023

Even wise, cool heads, such as the French diplomatist Jean-Marie Guéhenno, are seriously countenancing the idea that a no-deal Brexit may be better than prolonging the agony.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019

At any rate, Rubio got flak from the right, which accused him of somehow countenancing illegal activity.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2015

Canovas crowned his policy by countenancing the formation of a Liberal party under Sagasta, flanked by Marshal Serrano and other Liberal generals, which took office in 1881.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various