Sentences with phrase «flinch as»

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.

He didn't flinch as it crawled up his arm and across his chest before he placed it back on the ground.

The slate didn't flinch as I battled (and more often got fragged by) hordes of enemies in N.O.V.A. 3.

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.

You can see him tense up and flinch as the swing comes down but who could blame him.

The clerk at the Calgary location showed no sign of flinching as her finger poked through the hole.

SUBSTANCE USE - A teen boy and a teen girl receive injections from large hypos of truth serum in the side of the neck and the girl flinches as the boy breathes heavily and answers question, and a young man injects a teen girl in the back with a paralytic.

Not exact matches

It means I can describe God as my master without even flinching.

As years went by, he didn't flinch from the intellectually cutting criticism nor from the frequent mocking that he took from his friends.

As a Catholic statistician, I tend to read any story headlined with «Surveys say Catholics...» ready to flinch.

I, as a black man, find it impossible not to flinch to present conclusions given the injustices of the past.

Even people of other religions don't flinch in the slightest when I say «communion reminds me that God became human as Jesus, walked among us, and died for us on a cross» and that «we are followers of Jesus.»

As the late Carlyle Marney said, «You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you flinch before it makes you free.»

What marks the more recent literature as distinctive is not its concern with corporeal thinness and good health per se but the apparent willingness of authors to accept, ardently and without flinching, the somatic standards of the wider culture and convert them into divine decree.

Your cancer walks into the room before you do and people who know better still flinch — as they did before lepers, who were made to live outside the community, who had to beg for survival.

But pointing and clicking, I felt myself flinch from that familiar sterile moment and abandon the consoling fiction that I'm capturing life as it truly is.

But Las Casas, citing the binding of Isaac and the killing of the firstborn, did not flinch from defending human sacrifice as a justified religious act.

Though he would have flinched to hear it, Evelyn Waugh can be thought of as a spoiled priest.

Yes, on a few occasions, her barbed ways afford wicked humor, as during a monstrously affected «Ladies» Tea» that her aunt organizes so Scout can catch up with old classmates: «Their makeup would have put an Egyptian draftsman to shame,» she thinks, while failing to join their small talk and flinching at their only question, «well, how's new york?»

I flinch at stories of people killed when tornadoes are tearing off the church roof or hurricanes are flooding their houses — even as they pray for Jesus to rebuke once more the wind and the waves.

I can drink it straight and black, without so much as a flinch.

I tune in (as I flat out refuse to pay to watch them anymore), things go wrong, I don't flinch, I don't get angry, I don't even celebrate the goals, why?

It's as if he has robot hands — no flinching.

Watch as he gets shot with several bean bags while not even flinching, but then is tackled by several policemen.

I'm not as sure it was intentional but his elbow did flinch a bit out and he caught him.

[Breastfeeding] was an unpleasant sensation to me, and I thought, you know what, if I'm flinching, I might as well flinch to a machine instead of to my girl.

It's a little gross watching Ted's bum explode into a stream of poop, but it's also a little endearing, as dad doesn't even flinch, he knows it's all part of being a dad.

If something or someone approaches baby a little too quickly, he will flinch away in a demonstration of what is known as the startle reflex.

I believed my husband could hold her and play with her without me and she wouldn't so much as flinch.

In any event, you appear to have taken my own piece (at Though Cowards Flinch) as much at face value as you accuse others of taking Liddle's too much at face value.

And as Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have said, it is a challenge that we can not afford to flunk or flinch from.

«Reflecting on the speaker's career as a public official: When it comes to the issues that matter to working families, whether raising the minimum wage or protecting affordable housing, our public schools and the environment, Shelley Silver never flinches,» Lipton said.

Despite tough criticism and insults from the president and his allies — a top African - American Trump surrogate, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, characterized Wilson as «a buffoon» while White House chief of staff John Kelly teed off on her from a White House lectern — the 74 - year - old Democrat hasn't flinched, firing back with caustic responses honed by years of full - contact Miami politics.

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.

As an experiment, he placed his face up against the puff adder enclosure at the London Zoo and tried to keep himself from flinching when the snake struck the plate glass.

As Zlotogorski injected a 14 - year - old Israeli girl — who held her bald mother's hand and flinched at the needle — Christiano watched and winced with her.

The air puff would cause a patient to blink or flinch his or her eye as a natural reaction, but after repeated trials over the course of half an hour, many of the patients would begin to anticipate the puff, blinking an eye after only hearing the tone.

Their reaction to evident problems is to flinch, as if a scientific superego is saying: «Am I allowed to get this professor's article and read it?

As a long - term tinnitus sufferer, I am nervous that my symptoms may change or get worse, and therefore would easily flinch if a tone change or got louder.

When we're on dates and someone sits there as the check comes without even flinching, we start to wonder if she expects to always be taken care of, and even worse, will wonder if she is innately selfish.

Without flinching, they rejected Cuban's $ 30 million offer on the grounds that they saw CMB growing as big as Match, a billion - dollar business.

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.

As he did in his first two sturdy efforts behind the camera, the Boston - set crime dramas Gone Baby Gone and The Town, Affleck exhibits admirable restraint in creating the moral landscape of this film, and he aids himself by working with actors who are adept with the subtleties of sighs and flinches, who can stumble into patches of either light or darkness with equal ease.

Jennifer Lawrence commits to an impressively not - distracting Russian accent, and doesn't flinch from the physical demands of the role, and Edgerton effortlessly essays a gruff, natural charisma as pretty much the only character with a clear moral code.

As a paw is spit - roasted, the point is well made: faced with extreme material for his first adaptation, biggest budget and biggest cast (not his only hapless hound, mind — RIP, Sightseers» Poppy), Wheatley doesn't flinch.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shotas flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shotAs in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shotas «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

This all comes off as more interesting in the synopsizing than in the actual telling; screenwriter Peter Landesman («Parkland») and director Michael Cuesta («L.I.E.,» the «Homeland» pilot) bobble their portrayal of journalism early on — you'll flinch if you know the first thing about newspaper captions or the inverted - pyramid style of reportage — and they (along with Renner) never make Webb a captivating enough character to follow through the ups and downs of this saga.

In scenes such as this, the story doesn't shy away from graphic displays of blood so audiences should be prepared to flinch for a few seconds before they laugh at the pure insanity of it all.

But before you flinch, drop that attitude: Several of these blockbusters have been excellent action movies, redeeming Hollywood's most profitable genre as opportunities for sophistication, sarcasm and panache.

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