Grant marches across the terrain of his life (stopping short of his corrupt failure of a Presidency) with the same relentless and unflinching realism with which he pursued Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Leviathan is acted and directed with unflinching ambition, moving with deliberative slowness and periodically accelerating at moments of high drama and suspense.
Ms. MacColl's songs were rooted in folk-rock and girl-group pop, and they tempered romance with realism, often merging witty but unflinching lyrics with buoyant choruses.
It plows through some harsh, horrifying realities with unflinching sobriety, concerned less with social problems than with facts and in the process illuminates French society with a toughness and fidelity that few other recent movies have dared.
With Mr. Davis acting as ambassador, the film started shooting last year, and developed a buzz for its unflinching interviews with real gang members and survivors.
This posthumous collection of poems, written as the author was dying, of multiple myeloma, is a gentle but unflinching confrontation with mortality.
But military action is a chaotic, unpredictable affair and Hollande's unflinching engagement with it is a far cry from the hesitant statesmen who, only weeks ago, was desperately battling dissent in his own party.
For women fleeing abuse, the government's unflinching obsession with home-ownership won't help them – when you're in fear for your life, and your children's lives, you need a safe house, not a foot on the ladder.
Yet there is also a hard-hitting truthfulness to the film, its messages about racial inequity never preachy or overt, but a product of the unflinching bravery with which Thornton captures his characters and their environment.
I watch it willingly enough in documentaries or newscasts and in Shakespeare and dramas that draw us into unflinching encounters with our human condition.
