Sentences with phrase «more flinching»

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Although the «flinch test» (keep raising the price and constraining the terms until the customer flinches) may have been an effective pricing art in the era of enterprise software, much more thoughtful strategies are needed for the modern models.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Infectious processed like colds or stomach bugs come and go without making us flinch and they are MUCH less frequent than when we were eating a more typical American diet.

However, for more peace of mind, you can make sure that the ones that are foldable have tough locks on them that do not flinch no matter what happens.

The Democrats didn't flinch, for once, so Republicans couldn't lose more than a vote or two in the Senate, which they promptly did when the CBO produced a disastrous score for the bill.

It has an IPX6 waterproofing rating compared to the more common IPX5 rating, so it can withstand a deluge of water without flinching.

This is a well - established method of measuring instinctive attraction to an image, given that those in a more upbeat frame of mind flinch less.

What George Clooney Does: Stares glumly, stares glumly, stares glumly, shoots this guy, shoots the lady he just had sex with, drives and stares glumly, meets contacts, makes a gun, talks on the phone to the boss he no longer trusts, stares glumly, makes another gun, talks some, meets a lady assassin who's even more cold - blooded than he is, stares glumly, gets kind of turned on when he shoots his gun in the lady assassin's direction and she doesn't even flinch, talks to a priest, stares glumly at the priest.

With a premise not much more believable than Snakes on a Plane, this slickly made thriller entertains us from start to finish by never flinching once.

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 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.

What really sets Laurent Cantet's film apart is the straightforward manner in which it dares to look the good old class struggle in the eye, without flinching... read more

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.

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..

My theory is that slime has a special flinch and destroyer factor, but does not do much more damage than a normal bomb.

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.

Hammer: Blunt weapon that inflicts KO damage that can tire a monster and stun it, causing it to flinch more often and be slower, weaker, etc while tired.

More importantly, it showed the seeds of a talent ready to spread its wings — the kind of young artist who could make a personal drama so intense it would make John Cassavetes flinch.

I think it scared the bikers a little when a big lick of fire jumped out of the venturi, but I think it scared them even more that a small, freckle - face girl didn't flinch.

They flinch if you use the word «softer» when describing the new setup; the word «refined» is probably more accurate.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

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

The more a municipality tries to milk its businesses and people, the more the businesses begin to hit their flinch point, and look for greener pastures.

Some dogs that have been traumatized by having their quick cut with the more traditional scissor and guillotine styles can be reconditioned using this style of file since it lacks the loud click (and accompanied flinch) of blade clippers.

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.

Flinch is going to be reevaluated, and several more controller configurations will be added come November.

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.

People close to her say that she admires how Trump challenges orthodoxies, even though she has flinched at some of his more unvarnished comments.