Sentences with phrase «flinches first»

The diminutive British three - door tried valiantly to hold its own in our head - to - head driver's car shootout, but at the chequered flag it flinched first...

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In his efforts to teach in the public square, John Paul II did not» and First Things should not» flinch from this humbling but unavoidable truth.

A supportive school board helped pass a bond issue in 2000 and didn't flinch when the program failed inspection its first year, Coplan said.

She hid for most of the the first week and flinched whenever I would reach out to pet her.

That first scene is so immersive, we flinch and duck (it scared my cat out of the room)-- from the breaking waves around the carrier to the incoming mortars to the zipping past of bullets, it's a layered, thickly - crafted audio track, with distant shots and center - channel machine gun fire making full and brilliant use of the entire soundstage.

In one of their first encounter, DeMeo points a gun at his face, and Kuklinski doesn't flinch.

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.

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.

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.

Even in that first viewing, I flinched.

DuVernay does not flinch, does not give in, and working in glorious tandem with screenwriter Paul Webb and actor David Oyelowo she paints a shrewdly devastating picture of progress, resistance, and restraint that held me spellbound first moment to last.

My first education in the casual cruelty of girls came when a reigning cheerleader invited me to her house to spend the night, only to ask me, without flinching, to finish her algebra homework before I left.

When the ebook edition began selling for 99p on Kindle for the summer, I'll admit that I flinched, but — excluding a few days» concession of my throne to Neil Gaiman — it topped the charts for six weeks and I was able to take my family on an overseas holiday for the first time.

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.

«Eric Garner,» written in tall white letters that lean back as if flinching, catches the eye first, followed by «Sandra Bland» in yellow to the right, a URL for a Time magazine item about the speech at bottom and «Black Lives Matter» up above.

President Donald Trump predicted Sunday that China would be the first to flinch in the ongoing trade dispute.