Sentence examples for unflinching as from inspiring English sources

But her portrait of Arthur Fiedler is as unflinching as a Holbein or Whistler portrait.

His manifestations of rage are often so unflinching as to feel threatening.

It is as unflinching as all Gates's other writing, but for once he hints at a modicum of redemption for humanity in all our messy awfulness.

"Her portrait of Arthur Fiedler is as unflinching as a Holbein or Whistler portrait," Lawson Taitte wrote in The Times in 1994.

One recent stark episode about a music student who is raped in her apartment was as startlingly realistic and unflinching as any in the series's early days.

He demolishes the myth of a spontaneous, three-day composition of "On the Road," setting out Kerouac's extensive revisions; he is unflinching as he describes Kerouac's racism.

It's as unflinching and as stark as anything you might hear on, say, Lou Reed's Berlin.

ROY BLOUNT'S new book, "Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story," is a wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir as funny as anything he's ever written, and that's saying a lot, since Blount's one of America's wittiest writers.

"With my voice, I am calling you," Cave moans, again and again, to open "Skeleton Tree," and that's the way the rest of this gorgeous but harrowing record plays out: as though the artist — known for an unflinching Gothic sensibility as dark as his ink-black hair — is using his music to combat the terrible irreversibility of what happened just over a year ago.

But Dunham's shtick, once you get past the sex and the "unflinching" honesty, is as old as the hills.

Joyce's hand is as unflinching in its force as any of the deathly actions rendered to the bodies on any page, almost like an alarm light throwing its glow over room after room, or stations in an exhibit of twisted murder scenes.