"The relationship between an athlete and a coach can only be based on unflinching trust.
Don McCullin is best known for his unflinching photo reportage of war, famine and disaster from around the world, but he is also a fine observer of youth culture.
The merging of two separate shots was intended to depict caring Chinese politicians visiting a sweet old lady, but only gave the internet Orwellian nightmares – and obliged the image-makers to undergo some pretty unflinching Maoist self-criticism.
It was brutal, unflinching and a difficult watch, but Campbell's work stands alongside Olivia Colman's in the 2011 film Tyrannosaur in terms of commitment and detail.
This is an unflinching portrait of an England quite unlike George Orwell's idealised nation of "old maids bicycling to holy communion", let alone John Major's "invincible green suburbs".
Bookshops are full of unflinching memoirs, and even the literary novel is no stranger to the genre.
She is a lesbian.' But she won't be remembered for her unflinching support of the war there.
Later, according to the classified documents, the Iron Lady – resolute, principled, unflinching – accepted that the government would have to allow "a murderer to go free".
Our first trip to Japan performing Thick as a Brick to inscrutable, unflinching observers left us longing for the warm and more comprehensible sights and sounds of Europe.
Michael Haneke's acclaimed new picture offers such an unflinching portrait of the grubby business of dying – focusing on the final days of an elderly French couple – that it precludes all talk of second acts or miracle cures.
Although the series is ostensibly fiction, it is also an unflinching memoir, from early childhood right up to the controversial reception of the book itself.
