Sentences with word «flinch»

Updike does not flinch at making God responsible for the deaths that undermine our confidence in the goodness of life.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

It's hard to find examples of groups who are consistent in taking a detached view of their own past (human beings are not known for being consistent), but I would say that many countries look at their own pasts without flinching from the seamier side.

7 — Your face turns purple when you hear of the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children and the murder and enslavement of thousands of women and children in Numbers: 31.

But she never even flinches when she gets her injection — couldn't be easier!

The combat is well animated though most attacks lack weight as monsters simply stand there taking every hit without flinching and vice versa.

He was scrupulously orthodox, whether in matters of faith or morals — never flinching from demanding the highest standards in his young disciples and certainly never compromising on the content of Catholic morality.

It's only now, thirty years later, that he doesn't flinch as practice has swallowed whole the terror of what can't possibly be known.

I think some have tired over its run because the show doesn't flinch in what it has chosen to depict.

Messrs Huhne, Cable and Clegg may have been respectively difficult for their partners over AV, Beecroft and nearly everything, but they can not be accused of flinching from George Osborne's Plan A. Mr Huhne was a convinced supporter of deficit reduction even before the election.

Valvassori has knocked down some of the hardest competition there is in this league but couldn't even make Rijos flinch on Sunday.

I see Paul's point that the Though Cowards Flinch post said there were various approaches.

You shouldn't feel so daft for flinching this time.

Because tile is born in fire, it can really take the heat, barely flinching when 500 + degree pans are set on it.

Adidas is quiet in the crate, and he didn't even flinch with the clap of thunder we had over the weekend!

With a myriad of services, we allow our clients to depend on us in the realm of academic writing always, as we never flinch away from providing the best essay writing services.

Saul seems to flinch just a tiny bit at the sight of a doctor examining a young boy who narrowly survived the lethal gas.

He still flinches at the memory of his most stinging defeat, a loss to his sister, Lenka, at age eight.

And although the producers aren't trying to don the armor of culture warriors, they don't flinch about showing the reality of abortion, adoption, and broken families either.

I began to flinch whenever a response popped into my inbox, getting more and more discouraged with our dwindling options of churches.

He is expected to be financially stable, not flinching before fishing out some bucks for this activity.

And Tomas hardly flinched, his nose didn't even bleed.

Keep this in mind when your foster dog or newly adopted puppy mill dog flinches from your hand, according to Michelle Bender and Kim Townsend.

Inside, it keeps flinching.

Through it all Oldroyd orchestrates things with utter confidence, never flinching once as things build to their shatteringly self - destructive conclusion.

Perhaps she also flinched when the bodies collided, shocked at the force with which Jack and the others crashed into one another, protected — if that's not too generous a word — by meek shoulder pads, thinly - padded canvas pants and leather helmets (well before the face mask).

When Wisconsin plays a similarly built team, something fun happens: Both teams do a Wisconsin imitation, and whoever flinches first loses.

Rory McIlroy chuckled uncomfortably when the subject of his heir apparency popped up three years ago at Congressional and he visibly flinched on Tuesday when it gained momentum again ahead of this week's PGA Championship.

No one flinches if someone leaves the office to make a doctor's appointment.

Do you ever flinch as you open one of your kitchen cabinets because you expect something to come tumbling out at your face?

And of course nobody flinched on th sky train.

They will also flinch out of the way if an older brother or sister, or an unfamiliar stranger, gets too close too quickly.

He still sometimes flinches when I catches a glimpse of my Breast if I'm feeding her out and about, but he 100 % supported and encouraged me to go to a nurse in a few months ago, that was interstate, so he organised my flights the night before while I packed.

After 20 minutes, the sleeping infants were four times as likely to flinch after a beep delivered without an air puff as when they began, indicating that they had learned to associate the two in their sleep.

Heather Phillipson: more flinching coincides with the major exhibition Electronic Superhighway (2016 - 1966)

«There will definitely be advisors out there whose clients won't even flinch because they are getting value,» she said.

The market flinched at first, with the S&P 500 dropping 3.4 per cent in July after rates rose from 1 per cent to 1.25 per cent.

It never flinches no matter what the client's challenge.

My route to work has a half - mile stretch of road with speed bumps every few hundred feet, and the 4Runner barely flinched hitting those 8 - inch tall bumps at the 25 - mph speed limit.

Right, why are snipers flinching in PvE?

I remember flinching when I signed a 10 - year lease because I still owed on student loans and I had a negative net worth.

Let's face it: The Southerners seemed more brave (those so - called FIGHTING IRISH were constantly flinching and so missing tackles) and more intelligent.

Government spinners froze as their opposition counterparts flinched into action.

For example, she discovers that Wantage can not learn to stop flinching when tapped on the bridge of the nose.

Twist the key, smile as the starter makes its distinctive helium chuckle, then flinch as ten cylinders pound into life, a wall of noise thundering through a free - breathing exhaust system.