countenance
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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
Such a vote would need to be signed off by the UK government, which has repeatedly refused to countenance the idea.
From BBC ● May 9, 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
His countenance expressed sympathy and compassion; he drew a chair close to mine and addressed me in French,
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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
He was also the only barefaced person in a sea of masked countenances.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2020
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
A dying figure, Agni, is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the Night, Copernicus, Tristan and Isolde.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2016
At the severity of their countenances, I felt a chill.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
The complexity of Facebook’s systems will no longer be countenanced as an excuse for failing to regulate it.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018
This was extravagant and not to be countenanced.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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
Think what a row I should get into with your dad for countenancing your taking part in it, Dick.”
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford
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