unflinching

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She looked at me out of her wonderful eyes--unflinching, cruel, then the balance swung against me I believe you are right, Roberta Vallis," she spoke with raised forefinger and a show of judicial consideration.

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  • They were the early, unflinching, and faithful champions of state rights. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • The poet Mark Doty wrote, "With her radiant powers of empathy, her fiercely acute ear for the musical possibilities of American speech, and her undiluted rage, Patricia Smith makes in Katrina's wake a sorrowful, unflinching, and glorious book." —  43rd State Blues: Democracy for Idaho
  • I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. —  Iraq Updates - Latest News
  • Susan loves the book; she thinks Bailey's version of her father is truthful and unflinching, and that it captures him in some essential way. —  The Guardian World News
  • Their glances met, and in the depths of the steady gray eyes the soft blue ones read purpose--unflinching purpose to fight and win for the glory of an infinite love Her eyes dropped. —  The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
 

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/ənˈflɪntʃɪŋ/
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