Sentences with phrase «of flinching»

When Norris performed the piece at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver recounts in the catalogue, it provoked «audible and muffled gasps as well as a wave of flinching and cringing from the audience... Although she read no manifesto, it was clear that she was challenging the practice of painting, the art academy, and the canon of art history, and she was doing so gangsta - style.»

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.

Be aware of flinching, when we flinch, we tighten up and the result is that we often move baby to high up and lose the upward chin tilt.

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

It wouldn't have been practical or budget conscious to buy two new sets when I already had one that was fine, but a little part of me flinches just a bit every time I see these two different striped patterns.

Unlike the youngest son of Storytelling's best segment, who absorbs his parent's bourgeoisie disdain for their El Salvadoran immigrant maid, Remi sort of flinches and passively contracts at his mother's nastiness.

Not exact matches

My dog flinched a couple times and tried to move but I held my chest across her body and rested my cheek on the back of her head to keep her still.

«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.»

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.

Porat, known inside Alphabet for her fierce attention to controlling costs, doesn't flinch in her defense of the company's touchy - feely legacy.

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.

This time, the numbers may be similar, but the crypto markets flinched and took all of a day to bounce back.

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.

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

4 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing how God slaughtered the babies of Egypt in «Exodus», ordering of ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees!

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.»

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.

Yes, the truth might make you flinch, but it will also make you free — free enough, maybe, to find your way on the terrain of life.

He has a conviction in his belief that in the face of death he does not flinch or cower....

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

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.

Those who articulated [it] faced without flinching the most negative of all the consequences of embodiment: the fragmentation, slime, and stench of the grave... [W] e may not find their solutions plausible, but it is hard to feel they got the problem wrong.»

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the bible).

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.

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.

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the Bible).

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.

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).

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

And although the producers aren't trying to don the armor of culture warriors, they don't flinch about showing the reality of abortion, adoption, and broken families either.

Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.

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

7 — Your face turns purple when you hear of the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees!

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.

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

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

Repeated consumption of Chiles is also believed to confuse trigminal cells, which is also why some of your «Chile monster» friends seem to have built up a tolerance to capsaicin and can, eat the hottest habanero without even flinching.

If Kyle Lobstein threw a baseball within three feet of me, I would flinch and yelp in imagined pain

Rory McIlroy chuckled uncomfortably when the subject of his heir apparency popped up three years ago at Congressional and he visibly flinched on Tuesday when it gained momentum again ahead of this week's PGA Championship.

Instead of closing down Austin, Rhino just stood still, held his «BALLS» protectively with both hands, customarily flinched, but luckily, thanks to the Universe, the ball missed.

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

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.

He then moved onto to Malmo, giants of Swedish football, but didn't flinch under pressure.

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

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!

«The Model 1100 does have less recoil sensation, and it should therefore be of special interest to the shooter who is particularly sensitive to recoil and who tends to anticipate the kick of the gun by flinching, thus interrupting not only the smoothness of his swing but also his concentration on targets.

Witte, a former Ohio State center, still flinches when he recalls the night in January 1972 when he was stomped and beaten by Minnesota players Corky Taylor and Ron Behagen in the final seconds of a Buckeyes win over the Gophers.

Daniel Mendoza, the heavyweight champion from the London ghetto, had introduced the art of footwork and some fancy blocking, but the average bare - knuckle pug a century ago was a strong, squat, determined slug of a man who stood his ground like an ancient gladiator, dealing out punishment to the limit of his endurance and taking the full force of his opponent's blows without flinching.

Alcindor occasionally responded by backing strongly into Unseld and jostling him slightly, which is equivalent to making the Sphinx flinch, but after the opening game Unseld was able to hold Alcindor six points under his league - leading regular season average of 31.7.