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  • Countenance is a synonym for face or facial expression, but may also refer to: Look up countenance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Countenance divine...
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    The divine countenance is the face of God. The concept has special significance in the Abrahamic religions. Islam considers God to be beyond ordinary...
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  • Vast Countenance is a rock 'n' folk band from Volendam, the Netherlands, founded in 1999. Vast Countenance toured the Netherlands and the United States...
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  • (昭儀; zhāoyí) Lady of Cultivated Countenance (修容; xiūróng) Lady of Handsome Fairness (婕妤; jiéyú) Lady of Splendid Countenance (容華; rónghuá) Lady of Humble...
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    citing "threats to Soviet security". The invasion, code name Operation Countenance, was largely unopposed by the numerically and technologically outmatched...
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    according to reports of private peace negotiations with Israel they have countenanced the return of only 10,000 refugees and their families to Israel as...
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    countenancing those proceedings" so that he could "stimulate them to a public declaration of what every one of their acquaintance privately knows to be...
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  • In the Countenance of Kings is a ballet choreographed by Justin Peck to music from Sufjan Stevens's The BQE. The ballet was Peck's first ballet made for...
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    Margaret Thatcher (category Converts to Anglicanism from Methodism)
    won concessions over their living conditions. Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for the prisoners, having declared "Crime is...
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    reason.com. June 11, 2016. "Mandatory minimum drives US District Judge to countenance arguments for jury nullification in federal child porn case". entencing...
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    Macbeth (category Articles that link to Wikisource)
    a sense of the character's inner life: The Times' critic saying "The countenance which she assumed ... when luring on Macbeth in his course of crime,...
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    name of Mâh-Peyker in Persian is composed of Mâh=Moon and Peyker=Face/Countenance. It means Moon-Faced.) Sakaoğlu, Necdet [in Turkish] (2008). Bu mülkün...
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    Queen Victoria (category Heirs to the British throne)
    of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful." Alexander, on the other hand, she described as "very plain". Victoria wrote to King Leopold...
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    his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend. His desires was blood and women, and terrible stories were...
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    ashamed, or out of countenance, with being deceived but twice by him. This sense has developed into the modern English use of "cavalier" to describe a recklessly...
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    story of a man falling for a woman with an ordinary countenance but a golden voice and wanted to cast Lata Mangeshkar in the role." In the late 1970s...
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  • fortune--to his only child, Princess Jade-Countenance. Princess Jade-Countenance would then later--2-years prior to her appearance in Journey to the West--after...
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    Europe (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    εὐρύς (eurús) 'wide, broad', and ὤψ (ōps, gen. ὠπός, ōpós) 'eye, face, countenance', hence their composite Eurṓpē would mean 'wide-gazing' or 'broad of...
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    Admiralty. "Show him in directly", I said. He came in, and with a pale countenance and faint voice, said, "We have gained a great Victory." – "Never mind...
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    establishment was ill-prepared "to countenance so startling a novelty". In 1858–59, Melbourne Punch cartoons linked Duffy and O'Shanassy to the terrors of the French...
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