#countenance

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance. ↗

— Frances Burney

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I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

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