Examples of flinch

• His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes.

• Visionary though he was, he did not foresee that, in the twentieth century, some armies would not flinch from the prospect of genocidal war.

• And once he got the power he never flinched from using it, making more than 275 elective appointments per year.

• In all those ceremonies, the young men undergoing pain are expected to manifest impassivity - in other words, to endure without flinching.

• A person might cause another to flinch by scaring her.

• In such a case, the manipulator does not believe that flinching is somehow the prudent response to fear or that the person who flinches believes this.

• In his letters to her, he never flinches from this lofty position, constructing and maintaining an emotional moat between the two of them that he thought for the best.

• They flinched not against any dangers; they were courageous even unto death.