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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

The aim, colleges and advisers explain, is to probe how well students can countenance other viewpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

“I was very impressed with his countenance, courtesy and respect toward me,” Grier said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

He’s 43, immaculately dressed and groomed and has the countenance of a high school counselor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

He was light-brown-skinned, an Asiatic cast of countenance, and he had oily black hair.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

Of course, a book that casts countenances as works of art also has an attendant ethics.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

Every person faces the same way, their countenances drawn and unsmiling, a picture of dreary conformity.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2018

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

Presently the tumult died down.The four pigs waited, trembling, w'ith guilt written on every line of their countenances.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

“Catholics are not extremists,” he said, bristling at any suggestion that he would have countenanced targeting Americans because of the nature of their religious beliefs.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

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

Too stupid or too bold to be countenanced as serious.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021

This was extravagant and not to be countenanced.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

If Holmes’ constant appeal is an easily solvable case, then countenancing the possibility that there may be much more to his life than what Doyle shared isn’t impossible either.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 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

He could, and did, submit to any amount of cutting repartee, and felt a sort of pride in her vigour and recklessness, but he had no notion of countenancing open mutiny, even from Beulah.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.