Word: flinch
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...after you're thoroughly hooked on this music, you'll start hearing it everywhere. Take me, for instance. When I hear the screech of a narrowly-averted three-car collision. no longer do I flinch. I just think that someone. somewhere, is playing Songs of the Humpback whale...
...N.A.B. is one of the few modern versions to address God directly as "you" instead of the reverential "thee" or "thou."* In many familiar passages, Catholics should welcome the clarity of modern language (see box), but some may flinch when the priest at a wedding intones: "Let no man separate what God has joined," instead of, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Something is missing, too, when "the spirit is willing but nature is weak." Inexplicably, some words have become more obscure ("terebinth," for instance, replaces "turpentine tree"). And sometimes the translation seems...
...movie camera can do anything the human eye can do except flinch; that faculty is left to the audience. In What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, Director Allen Funt's candid camera remains as fixed and beady as any voyeur's. It is the viewers who must proceed, flinch by flinch, to the fadeout...
...impulse along the nerve fibers to the fourth lumbar vertebra (see diagram). Then the impulse travels upward and soon crosses over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds to the cortex. Only in this, the newest and most advanced part of the brain, is the entire painful...
...exception to the rule might not be made in this case. The dean said, "it was traditional that Faculty meetings were closed." Someone asked if the dean wasn't embarrassed "at the vacuousness of the arguments he had to offer for closed Faculty meetings." Dean Glimp seemed to flinch at this, as if struck. He smiled very wanly, nervously...