Sentences with phrase «flinch at»

INSIDE TUCSON BUSINESS By: Roger Yohem June 15, 2012 When New York - based commercial real estate developer Rockefeller Group entered the Tucson market in 2010, its leaders didn't flinch at the flaws in their location.

Madisch, who didn't flinch at the accusation that he paid an agency to scrape and spam users, denied this was the case.

But the narrower the margins get, the weaker the political arguments become and the more power utilities flinch at investing billions to switch to a fuel that may someday lose the government's long - term support.

Stop to study Rainbow (1988), Xu Zhen's photograph of a torso, and you'll flinch at the clang that accompanies it; Yang Fudong's film of a disaffected citizen's aimless wander through the «estranged paradise» of Hangzhou stifles all hope, and Yang Jiechang's instructions above an urn (Testament, 1989 - 1991)-- One Day I Die An Unnatural Death Then One Should Feed Me to a Tiger and Keep its Excrements — veers to the morbid.

You can earn seriously good money if you learn how to step up and present yourself in a way that clients won't flinch at a higher day rate.

The level design is a cliched blend of alien machinery and miscellaneous debris, and shmup veterans won't even flinch at the game's moderate difficulty.

While a Labrador or Golden Retriever wouldn't flinch at being accidentally hit by a child, a Pug or a Toy Poodle could be injured.

Humane societies, rescue operations, and all welfare organizations need men and women willing to tackle hands - on care; people who don't flinch at noise, smells, physical work, crises, or, worst of all, dealing with the public.

Oh and by the way, I didn't even flinch at the request, I smiled and agreed.

MESROBIAN: I lucked out with two editors, Andrew Karre and Alexandra Cooper, who didn't flinch at the content.

«Business and industry leaders do not flinch at the idea of placing top talent in struggling departments and divisions,» Ann B. Clark, deputy superintendent of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school district, has written.

Already under the gun because of high - stakes testing, as well as time and budget constraints, some educators flinch at the thought of creating such ambitious real - world projects or coordinating new partnerships with people outside the school.

I asked embarrassing personal questions and didn't flinch at the answers.

She watches on like it's business as usually and doesn't even flinch at the horror.

He's a man who is not easily perturbed and doesn't even flinch at the situation he and group of psychos find themselves in — which makes the entire situation more dire for Yelchin, Shawkat, and co..

The fact that she never even flinched, gasped or otherwise showed any emotion when he appeared in Zero mission — and in the epilogue she didn't flinch at the mecha robot made in his image either, or when he came back semi-mechanical (Meta - form) in Metroid Prime, came back again in a phazon powered omega form in Prime 3, or when he came out of a statue — apparently reborn without the mechanical enhancements in prime in Super metroid.

The characters don't flinch at the prospect of killing.

Executing scenes with surgical precision, he doesn't flinch at the sight of blood or the cuts that cause it.

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.

The fit, style, pattern, and material is really high - end for an Old Navy dress and the price is nothing to flinch at either!

Most kids won't flinch at the difference, and you can rest happy knowing you are squeezing in extra nutrients.

They don't flinch at the idea that we will not shower for weeks or that we are 20 people crammed into three vehicles for days until we reach the Gobi Desert.

I still jump & flinch at night if my husband touches or kisses me.

I suspect some of these same people, wanting him on a below market deal, didn't flinch at Julio or Devonta getting paid.

Any heavy who makes the U.S. team had better not flinch at the thought of 483 3/4 pounds, which was Zhabotinsky's clean - and - jerk record.

1st, Real Madrid u may come up with at least 100m before we even flinch at an offer for Alexis... pay the man 160,000 a wk Arsene!

(sort of)... it's cabbage, and many people just flinch at the mention of it... etc..

It was a hard to find combination but the bakery didn't even flinch at the request.

Occasionally a woman will flinch at the sound of the A-word, and ask her not to use it.

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.

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

Although he won't flinch at spending billions to buy a ketchup company, he also believes in watching his spending down to the last penny.

His most amusing gambits include making sure you visibly flinch at the other side's proposals, and that at the close of a negotiation that you feel you've won, you should say something like, «Wow, you did a fantastic job negotiating that.

Don't flinch at dropping a few hundred bucks on some quality software.

Just for fun... a reader may have wondered about those three (3) categories above, and flinched at one or the other.

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?»

While in seminary, I read much of Calvin to a blind student, and I know how often I flinched at that term.

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

Stunning fossils of a claimed new human species have stirred up great excitement among paleoanthropologists, but some researchers have also flinched at the hype accompanying the unconventional excavation.

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.

Released: September 15 Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) Why it's great: Relentless, morbid, and empowered like an Adderall - fueled, all - night Philosophy final prep session, Aronofsky's chamber piece is not for the weak of heart (or anyone who flinches at the sight of a weak human heart, for that matter).

(Always chafing under the burden of his father's money; always flinching at the expectation that Marx will bring it up again.)

This also explains why Rowling flinched at the prospect of Harry martyring himself at the end, something the entire series leads up to.

Wahlberg, stern and focused throughout, never flinches at the mounting danger as he hurtles through the smoky hallways in an effort to save as many people as possible — although he's mostly focused on saving terrified rig worker Andrea Fleyta (Gina Rodriguez, eyes bulging on cue), whose sole purpose is to give Wahlberg's character the opportunity for a selfless act.

She tried to comfort them with caresses, but they flinched at her touch.

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.

You see that he's flinching at the loudspeaker and getting a bit clingy.

If your dog backs up as you reach for him, or if he flinches at all, he is likely concerned when hands reach toward his head or neck.

Yes, the consumer is demonstrating constraint, but when it comes to feeding their beloved companion animals, they aren't flinching at the prices of high - end dog and cat foods.

It's a well - balanced blend of feeling immensely powerful — a feeling only emphasised by how your enemies grow more and more terrified as their comrades disappear, flinching at the merest sound and firing madly into the darkness — while at the same time remaining vulnerable to gunfire so as to make sure you never get too cocky.