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McVay had spent the previous availability explaining the reason for his somber and dour countenance during an awkward news conference the night before.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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

For “what else has a council ever been,” the pope asked, “but a renewal of this meeting with the countenance of the risen Christ?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

A wistful smile illuminated his countenance from time to time—a smile that said many things.

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

He was also the only barefaced person in a sea of masked countenances.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2018

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

“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

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

And as all this is rendered possible only by division of labour, how can we avoid countenancing it?

From What Shall We Do? by Leo Tolstoy, Count