Brooding, menacing and unnerving, it's a myopic, unflinching look at life around his Long Beach locale.
This is musical spirituality that comes from an unflinching look into depths of human pain.
Another series, "Queer as Folk," provides an unflinching look at gay life.
A poem, "Light and Air" in your book, is a beautiful, unflinching look at your mother dying.
And it's just odd to call a film that takes a pretty honest, unflinching look at the lives of working-class people, the way "Frozen River" does, "effete".
He's cleaned up his act, and, having just hit thirty, takes an unflinching look back on "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now".
Pinter himself described The Homecoming as "the most muscular thing I've written" in 2007, the year before his death, and it is also an unflinching look at masculinity.
"Leaving Tangier" is a brave, unflinching look at the issues underlying economic migration from North Africa and the hard choices people make between roots and wings.
A sharper sensibility surfaced in Moneyball (Bennett Miller), an unflinching look at the business of baseball featuring Brad Pitt as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane.
The two-hour documentary by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini takes an amazingly unflinching look at the process for seeking political asylum in the United States.
Gilbert promises an uncomfortable read for those "used to the complacent, self-congratulatory tone set by standard accounts" and an unflinching look at the army's many failings.
