In all those ceremonies, the young men undergoing pain are expected to manifest impassivity - in other words, to endure without flinching.
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.
There may be very good reasons for the flinching, but we have not yet heard them.
They have faced, without flinching and against almost incalculable odds, the horrors of irruption, of devastation, of spoliation, and of outrage.
Let there be no flinching or faltering in our resolve as the moment for decisive action draws near.
That is why there is a flinching from the alternative to grammar schools.
But, whether it is or not, our forces, without flinching, will continue to do all that is necessary to restore the security situation.
However, responsibly, taxes had to be increased without flinching despite the unpopularity of that move.
