Sentence examples for unflinching standards from inspiring English sources
A strikingly beautiful and robustly opinionated, independent woman – the director Peter Gill said that she had something of both Jean Seberg and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke about her – she was of that new generation in the subsidised theatre who believed in the ideals of an ensemble company, serious new plays, unflinching standards.
Back in 2004, Sharapova was already setting new standards for an unflinching readiness to back her own ability to hit the lines with raking drives.
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.
Its final act largely comprises an extended flashback during which we discover the terrible circumstances motivating its protagonist's quest: the lynching of her parents by a white mob, an atrocity depicted with an unflinching brutality that's shocking even by today's standards.
By the standards of the day the violence was intense and unflinching.
A scholar who has taught at the London School of Economics and Georgetown, he is the author of a standard textbook on the subject, and was an unflinching critic of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Lauded as London's best music pub in the Evening Standard last month, The Old Blue Last continues its unflinching march towards greatness after being voted the capital's eighth best club in The London Paper.
Indeed, Neil Young's own Needle and the Damage Done is a poignant postscript to Bert's Needle of Death, an unflinching chronicle of addiction that has – in the ensuing decades – become something of a folk standard.
Sarah Paulson did a remarkable job in conveying Clark's frustration and helplessness in the face of such rampant double standards (even her attempts to freshen up her appearance result in disaster), while the show's unflinching gaze makes us viewers feel complicit in her humiliation.
Not immortal, but unflinching.
