Examples of countenance

• By compromising illusion, theatre-in-theround subverts the artistic hegemony the proscenium countenances.

• An evolutionarily informed theory of action countenances overlapping causal domains: neurobiological, psychological, and rational.

• Thus, just as mathematical constr uctivism countenances only those mathematical entities that can be constr ucted from a proof,18 political construc17.

• Their happy "countenances" were as easy to read as plain pictures.

• The problem with inclusive legal positivism is that it countenances rules that are incapable of either directly or indirectly epistemically guiding conduct.

• Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world.

• Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.

• In each of the four cases, the deaths are in a real sense instrumental, necessary for the greater good, envisaged, foreseen, and voluntarily countenanced for that very reason.