Countenances Sentence Examples

In the Loci of 1535 Melanchthon sought to put the fact of the co-existence of justification and good works in the believer on a secure basis by declaring the latter necessary to eternal life, though the believer's destiny thereto is already fully guaranteed in his justification, In the Loci of 1543 he did not retain the doctrine of the necessity of good works in order to salvation, and to this he added, in the Leipzig Interim, "that this in no way countenances the error that eternal life is merited by the worthiness of our own works."

His face countenances the idea that Britain should not be willing to deport people to face torture or death.

His demeanor countenances not only the murder of white farmers, but also of his own people if they oppose him politically.

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

First came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances.

Officers who approached him with disturbed countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display their courage before him.

They are black, with woolly hair, and in their eyes and countenances there is something quite frightful ....

It would be premature to judge how far the problem of the origin of races may be capable of exact solution; but the experience gained since 1871 countenances Darwin's prophecy that before long the dispute between the monogenists and the polygenists would die a silent and unobserved death.