Words similar to countenance

Example sentences for: countenance

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The Sunday papers placed the blame for the deadlock on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's intransigent refusal to countenance a NATO-led force as peacekeepers, despite the fact that Kosovo Albanians were holding out for a referendum on independence once the three year interim period covered by the proposed settlement expired.
He could hardly countenance any public appearance of an ongoing contention between Dean Gooderham Acheson/ Yale/ Secretary of State/ and Joe McCarthy/ Chicken Farmer/ Marquette --wherever Marquette was--/ Junior Senator from --a state that had lost its senses.
In the last half-hour of Marleen Gorris' film of Mrs. Dalloway , Woolf's rhapsodic prose and Redgrave's radiant countenance combine for some of the most transcendentally beautiful cinema I have ever seen.
Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.
Another honeycombed stairway carved from the cliff leads back up the other side, coming out level with Buddha’s massive crown, where you have a view of the Buddha’s serene and knowing countenance.