Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person to be offered tenure. Although he has done a great deal he is still in ascendance," Princeton's Rampersad says. "He is willing to take on the task of institution building when other people are not so willing. It is a measure of his self confidence. Others may flinch. He is ready, willing and able to take on the task...
...great introspection. As Dr. Balcar (Lyra O. Barrera) says of Pazook, "He doesn't know what's going on inside him." He is most chipper when he abuses his wife, Vlasta (Forbes), his mistress, Renata (Bina Martin), or his secretary, Blanka (Magda Hernandez). Witness the scene when, without a flinch or trace of anger, he asks Vlasta, "Will you stop speaking for all womankind and see about starting dinner...
Whipping the tutors into shape has brought out a new, more forceful side of me. With nary a flinch I can say no to requests to do silly things like drive a van to Buffalo without insurance just to see Niagra Falls. Now I know how my father felt trying to whip me into shape during my high school years...
...play by the rules. He's supposed to be a "nothing-can-phase-him" kind of guy--he's bribed, he's tempted (Madonna brushes against him half-naked on all fours, asking for his affection), and he's kicked around--but still our leading man does not flinch or give in to avarice or lust. No. Tracy resists...
...though, there seems a certain inevitability to the events in Tiananmen Square. Looking back, the violent reaction appears as the only logical move the regime could have made. The Communist government that had gained its throne at the price of blood had made it clear that it would not flinch from killing to maintain its power...