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Typically, I direct all of my portraits, from the way my subject conducts his or her head, the way the neck is tilted, the expression of the fingers, the gestures of the hands, to the gaze and overall bearing and countenance.
This sequence encapsulates much of what is loved about Don Quixote, the epic, illogical, and soulful tale of Alonso Quijano, who becomes the clumsy but valiant Don Quixote of la Mancha, known as the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
And they have these infrared devices that can look at their countenance, and see a fraction of a degree Kelvin in temperature shift from 100 yards away when they play this thing.
His countenance and his boyish body language when he would be around her was so wonderful to watch.
Like Fraser extraordinary book, the life of Marie Antoinette is dramatized from her becoming queen of France as a teenager to her white hair and ravaged countenance as she meets her fate.
So one clear conclusion of the recent vote is that May will have to consider some “softer” form of Brexit than she was previously willing to countenance.
As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 74, “The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”
While a process of "peaceful evolution" offers the best prospect for change in this mutating "people's republic," the Party's demonstrated inability to countenance even the most modest quotients of political challenge--even with a new generation of leaders in power--does not inspire confidence in the prospect for piecemeal reform.
Though he vowed “severe punishment” if the Saudis did indeed kill Khashoggi, he refused to countenance canceling military contracts, instead lamenting what their loss would mean for American jobs.
The PiS is infantilizing Poland through its infatuation with authority, rejection of cooperation, denial of guilt, and refusal to countenance heterodox ideas and those who think them.
In the world circus, the poet looks like a Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, and Augustus the Fool appears ill-equipped for everyday life.
While Israel might countenance some official Saudi criticism as the price of its support, Arab public opinion might not be so easily mollified, especially in the absence of progress on the Palestinian issue.
His inability to revive Syria will leave him vulnerable in the same way that his refusal to countenance political reforms did eight years ago.
That is an outcome that no true European believer in France and Germany should be prepared to countenance.
Regulators are gradually waking up to the fact that they cannot countenance large expensive-to-trace transaction technologies that facilitate tax evasion and criminal activity.
Thus, pro-Georgian politics should not countenance nationalism.
Though the European Court of Human Rights has ruled her imprisonment politically motivated, Yanukovych – whose power to pardon is absolute – has refused to countenance her release, desiring above all to prevent her candidacy in the Ukrainian presidential election due in 2015.
But Turkey remains unwilling to countenance an autonomous Kurdish entity along its border.
At the same time, unilateral action by countries, like Hungary, that are unprepared to countenance even transiting migrants, merely ends up diverting the flow.
The same goes for eastern EU member states, which are even less willing to countenance a delinking from NATO or the US.
Refusing to countenance a fresh eastward enlargement means that, at some point, those countries that are outside the EU will start to threaten the values that he holds dear.
Given that eurozone members rejected even the idea of automatic sanctions for countries with excessive deficits, they are not likely to countenance such a wide ranging loss of sovereignty.
Granted, few people expect the U.S. government to try and emulate such crude dictatorships--or American citizensto countenance any such emulation.
Not even finance ministers in leather jackets are willing to countenance a bank run and the financial chaos that follows.
Was there really no way to counter the club of bad neighbors who refuse to countenance any discussion of Kurdish sovereignty?
Pope Benedict XVI, a strict conservative in doctrinal matters, is highly unlikely to countenance such an idea.
It is difficult to assume a despotic countenance when you can’t move your eyebrows.
What eventually became clear was that under no circumstances could Lee Kuan Yew countenance one particular word or concept: nepotism.
For example, Finland has explicitly said that it considers NATO membership to be an important option for its security policy, which is something that the Swedish center-left has not yet been willing to countenance.
But, since China knows that Ma is not advocating independence, they are able to countenance with greater equanimity his commitment to sustain the Republic of China on Taiwan.
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