Sentences with phrase «flinching from»

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.

I'm not frightened: I'm simply flinching from discomfort!

The action / reaction beauty of it all keeps you flinching from shock and then immediately has you rolling with laughter.

She is finally flinching from the ordeal of skating under a burden of fear, shame, resentment — and a useless husband.

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.

There were days, now and then, that he passed huddled in his bathrobe in front of the television, flinching from the pain, curling up in sorrow and wondering how in God's name he would summon the strength again to make the quip that would put everyone around him at ease, to tell the world in that hoarse, hyped voice, You got ta get it into the middle, it's the only way to heat a trap defense!

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.

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

The biblical prophets do not flinch from such a calculus.

We no longer flinch from staged vulgarity and even depravity, but we do flinch from reminders that we became who we are through some fateful and very bad choices.

Instead, if he does not flinch from it, but rather continues to love, his capacity for love increases, and his suffering can be accompanied by a deeper peace and joy.

To be a colored body was to be under sentence of death, and Morrison does not flinch from trying to communicate what it means to be living color in a racist world.

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.

He had been whispering into my soul, like a parent whispers too closely in a child's ear when chastising at a dinner table (that kind of whisper that makes kids flinch from the tickle).

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.

«The government should continue to raise human rights at the highest levels with Chinese counterparts, and not flinch from making public statements where appropriate.»

We'll spare the gentle reader's sensibilities by taking this any further, but others have not flinched from the matter at hand — thanks to a certain «counterculture icon» for pointing out the fine title of that last YouTube clip.

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

Lord Browne said: «We must not flinch from putting a value on education.

In his powwow with DISCOVER contributing editor Susan Kruglinksi, Penrose did not flinch from questioning the central tenets of modern physics, including string theory and quantum mechanics.

He didn't flinch from controversy, presenting evidence for human influence on global temperature and debunking common «natural causes» myths.

He does not flinch from raising the tough question of international fairness.

Lucia is a repressed old maid who flinches from even the thought of sex, but even so, weird Sheriff Tippett (Lyle Lovett) takes a fancy to her.

A finely crafted Western which doesn't flinch from portraying the horrors inflicted during that violent era, and which boasts an astounding performance from Christian Bale.

Lincoln never flinches from the conflicts of morality that the president faced.

Bleed for This flinches from plunging into the madness, the place where a truly interesting movie resides.

He also doesn't flinch from the moral grey area from which all his characters spring.

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.

Arkin is the standout in the superb cast, and the screenplay by Sprecher and co-writer Karen Sprecher doesn't flinch from discussing science, philosophy, and other things that grownups actually talk about.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film «doesn't flinch from graphic moments of violence and terror.»

Without getting into spoilers, it's worth noting that the harsh turns that friendships and relationships took during the course of Season 3 aren't easily forgiven, speaking to the way in which «BoJack» has never flinched from bleak emotional honesty in contrast to its more fantastical elements.

While the film does not flinch from the consequences of Republican Army killings (or shootings by the British army, for that matter), it also exposes the hypocrisy of a government which insisted publicly that Republicans were criminal rather than political prisoners, while at the same time treating them with a barbarity that no criminal would ever face.

Jolie can be a sensitive, even limpid director; she doesn't flinch from atrocities, and doesn't rub the audience's noses in them, either.

The actors filling out the supporting cast — from Eizik to the rabbi to a street beggar — never flinch from their honest representation of the world they live in.

Twohy doesn't flinch from the grit and violence of the story he wants to tell and that makes the film feel more genuine than it otherwise might have.

The film which co-stars Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Pena does not flinch from capturing the gritty realities of war

Because the fuse on this time bomb is long, politicians flinch from inflicting tax pain, given that problems will only become apparent long after these officials have departed.

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.

If your puppy has a heavy coat, the injury may be hidden from view and the problem not noticed until the dog is in pain and flinches from your touch, or the abscess begins to drain.

A god of war that mows down enemies and doesn't flinch from their attacks?

MGS is set in a violent world, and doesn't flinch from representing violent actions, but it is not a game about meting out violence — it's about avoiding it as much as possible.

That said, e-studio does not flinch from historical reference.

Both artists don't flinch from presenting life as they see it, especially in uncensored moments of unpolished realness.

Paul Matthams «doesn't flinch from giving bad news; he looks for solutions in light of the circumstances», and Siobhan Riley's «wonderful expertise makes her easy to discuss matters with».

De Novo flinches from nothing in Blawg Review # 46, from pessimism to Top IP Cases of 2005 to (yay!)

Not exact matches

«Neither shall we flinch even an inch from the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces chosen by ourselves, unless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the U.S. against the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated.»

The children's accounts of the visions were consistent and they did not flinch under considerable pressure from their families and others, and even under some rather brutal treatment by the local authorities.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

Fans hoping for fireworks in that meet (a Tyson Gay — Usain Bolt showdown, for example) know they're one flinch away from disappointment.