In stilted, formal phrases, Mira unflinchingly details her failure to help Dervis Korkut.
In what's likely the most widely read historical work about the female slave experience, Harriet Ann Jacobs (under the pseudonym Linda Brent) unflinchingly details her personal story, sharing accounts of sexual abuse and the indignity of slavery.
A song that unflinchingly bares its writer's despair, detailed in an intimate, introspective way.
Harrowing sea battles, botched public executions, savage whippings, hands burned to stumps by potash and lime: Natt och Dag spares us nothing, detailing horror after horror in his unflinchingly muscular prose.
Daum unflinchingly catalogs the medical details of her ailment, the symptoms, speculated causes, the prognosis.
Few performers can achieve such a penetrating connection with an audience, and, while the details are often wrenching and sometimes unflinchingly graphic, Chin tells her tale with so little pretense and such great humor that it's impossible not to want to ride along with her.
On one level, the fact that a guy who became a worldwide literary sensation through unflinchingly documenting his life in meticulous, sometimes excruciating detail waited until nearly the end of a six-book series to write about cranking his meat hog is flabbergasting as is the fact that the tale was excerpted in the first nudity-free issue of Playboy.
The album details her separation from artist Matthew Barney so unflinchingly that the first six songs are subtitled with a sort of date-stamp: Five Months Before, Two Months After.
Set – like her bestselling debut, The Secret Life of Bees – in the American deep south, where she grew up, The Invention of Wings unflinchingly depicts the brutality of slavery in vivid and meticulous detail, placing it in the tradition of novels such as Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison and first-person accounts such as Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave (now an Oscar-tipped film).
