Mr. Richardson's unflinching look at one family's decision and the contentious Oregon law that allows physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill comes as the debate over assisted suicide is set for another round.
Former fireman Sophia, played by transgender actor Laverne Cox, steals whole episodes with an unflinching storyline about the effects of her decision to become a woman on her wife and son, while lyrical, Shakespeare-quoting loner "Crazy Eyes" invites pity, shock, reproach and belly-laughs in equal measure.
This unflinching memoir is framed by Blunt's eventual decision to leave the rancher she had married at the age of eighteen and the only way of life she'd ever known.
But at least one thing was simple, Schliessler said in a recent phone interview: the decision to capture the action with an unflinching eye.
Given the behaviour of parts of the press over the past few years, and given the prime minister's decision to appoint a judge to shine so unflinching a light on it, something akin to what was agreed yesterday was always the probable outcome.
But the respect he has gained as a man of unflinching, unerring principles has been severely compromised by his Evangelistic Association's decision to remove a reference to Mormonism from its website.
In unflinching detail, he demonstrates how political conditions, psychological need and poor judgment produced decisions that destroyed his own movement and inflicted immeasurable pain on others, including his loving parents.
The time when Southgate's own decision-making will be judged is some way off, but in his unflinching focus on the country's long-term future he has done his best to ensure that England's latest attacking crisis is not only concerning but also, in a way, inspiring.
LONDON — As President Obama moves closer to a decision on the United States military's request for more troops in Afghanistan, the British government has made an unflinching commitment to continue its role as the second largest troop provider in the 43-nation coalition fighting the war.
Not immortal, but unflinching.
