countenance

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

Dan Bifano is in a hurry, but it’s in his nature to be gracious, so he keeps his countenance serene even though gnarly traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway has made his visitors very late.

It meant that conservatives would never again countenance a lifetime Supreme Court appointment to any ideological wildcard.

“As we just saw, even conservative judges are unlikely to countenance such efforts that fly in the face of basic election law principles,” Stephanopoulos said.

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.