I flinched as her tiny, translucent hand reached for mine.
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They flinched as explosions could be heard in the distance.
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It's agony and awesome, and our young guys never flinched.
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But the U.S. economy has barely flinched since the vote.
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People flinched as the echo of artillery filled the streets.
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Ms. Abu Hanna flinched but acceded to a few shots.
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But at the last instant, Bradley flinched and pulled back.
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Players in the Yankees dugout noticed that Chisenhall never flinched.
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Ovechkin, standing at the end of Washington's bench, hardly flinched.
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I flinched when someone yelled "retard" at my brother, Jimmy.
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"The guy holding her flinched at the last second," Green recalled.
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China then confirmed it would retaliate but still traders barely flinched.
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For years the Ethiopian government flinched at terms like "social protection".
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But, unlike Emilia Clarke, Rick never flinched at doing the scene.
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Tsitsipas barely flinched, though, and broke again with a belting forehand.
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Andrew flinched from the pretend burn, shook his hands pretend cool.
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He just watched and flinched and got yelled at to grow up.
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Kowalkiewicz ate plenty of perfectly timed counter right hands and barely flinched.
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"Despite the criticism, she never flinched," Mr. Krist said of Ms. Grissom.
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She hadn't even flinched when I'd made reference to my sex life.
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On those rare moments Chavez flinched, the Astros didn't squander their shot.
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We had good pressure on him a lot today and he never flinched.
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C271 was called upon by the Great Alex Rodriguez and it never flinched.
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The way Hales flinched her face showed she was bothered by the power.
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Maybe it was because she barely flinched when she caught him asphyxiating himself.
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" That spring, McIntyre mentioned Franken on the air and noticed that Tweeden "flinched.
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And he looked, he flinched, he gulped, and he ran for the door.
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James flinched at the question, assuming that Temple was asking if he was gay.
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As in a side-alley show, some knife-throwing act, she had not flinched.
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I don't think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought, 'What is happening?
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I don't think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: 'What is happening?
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It is a crisis even Johnson's great hero Winston Churchill might have flinched at.
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At 11:30 in the basement, the lights turned on and no one flinched.
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In fact, confidence bounced back almost immediately and Britain's economy barely flinched after the referendum.
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When he reached across her to get the one in the glove box, she flinched.
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Like all the other Americans I saw there, I flinched each time its hand touched mine.
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A high-def camera could have come in for a closeup, and I wouldn't have flinched.
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I noticed that despite his smile, my new father flinched at the noise and the lights.
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Although he had welcomed earlier uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, he flinched when Syria's turn came.
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One by one they landed on Miller's vest or in his hair, but he never flinched.
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The party has been beaten along the way (2006, 2008, 2012), but it has not flinched.
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Even prospective Holmby Hills buyers flinched, so he slashed the price by a whopping $10 mil.
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He never flinched at the slop or the burnt-looking bits, as the room began to spin.
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Some media flinched piously from portraying her without a headscarf, a taboo which frayed after her death.
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Regarding his own action on that fateful Saturday in February when Scalia died, McConnell has not flinched.
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We flinched at empty descriptors like "compelling" and "massive," words that Edmund Wilson had once frowned upon.
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The sports world took notice, but barely flinched, when Peyton Manning's name was revealed in the documentary.
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Some of the women nodded when Dr. Blasey spoke; some grimaced or flinched during Judge Kavanaugh's testimony.
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The Secret Service nabbed the man before he got too close, but not before Mr. Trump flinched.
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Geraint Thomas never flinched at whatever fans — or his rivals — threw at him or at Team Sky.
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Asian shares flinched from testing their 2007 record peak as investors booked profits in high-tech shares.
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Walsh said he "flinched and bent at the knees" when he heard Van Dyke fire at McDonald.
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"I thought, he hasn't moved - he hasn't flinched, it didn't look right," she told the Daily Mail.
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Amazon played chicken with the city of Seattle, and the city flinched — but didn't bow down completely.
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"She was a major part of our campaign, and she just never flinched," said Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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When I awoke to the sight of bright sunlight in the morning, I flinched and checked the clock.
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Kate was clearly shocked and let out a squeal, but other than that neither flinched as they left.
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Yep, Kennedy and his pals waterboarded each other for roughly 45 minutes on Friday ... and barely even flinched.
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"She was a major part of our campaign, and she just never flinched," said Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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Peter heard a knock at the front door, on the river side of the cottage, and he flinched.
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John, Poke said, and this time Rod flinched, and he glanced Poke's way, and he did not smile.
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I flinched, and he looked hurt, wounded, like I was accusing him of physical abuse by my actions.
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And if you flinched in reading that choice bit of dialogue, then "Witness" is probably not for you.
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But in the days after we returned home from St. Augustine, I flinched every time he touched me.
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A few blocks away, when Deborah Berkowitz's 6-year-old son swooped in for a hug, she flinched.
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But oddsmakers tend to see though partisanship and focus on the bottom line, and they have not flinched.
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Markets barely flinched at the last shutdown in January, but that was before a selloff that started on Jan.
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It has flinched at reining in dirty industries, wary of the mass job losses that seemed likely to ensue.
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I flinched, along with Harry, at every awful injustice Snape inflicted upon his students (from my house in particular).
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Investors barely even flinched at this news, and the stock closed up just 16 cents a share on Wednesday.
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No one flinched when Kendrick threatened to pull his music from Spotify after their hateful conduct policy against XXXTentacion.
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Many flinched and some sobbed as he hit the wall with a hammer to simulate the sound of gunfire.
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Hamilton flinched as the student went off script , calling Trump a "fascist" and praising the student boycott of Israel.
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They flinched under fire, and their barks were generally pathetic as they pleaded for water and bemoaned their desperate conditions.
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"I truly believe that that moment took our relationship to a whole other level because he never flinched," she said.
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In the month her son had been working at the Duck House, she'd flinched every time someone said his name.
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He flinched every few seconds, took wide turns, accelerated up to a red light, gasped, and slammed on the brake.
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Per the report, Washington "hasn't flinched," rebuffing teams that have repeatedly called about Williams' availability amid his training camp holdout.
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I took the stage, and at first, some men in the audience squeamishly flinched at the mention of butt stuff.
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Ms. Simms said that during the search, she flinched, complained and asked if it could continue at a police station.
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When he stood up and walked over to my side of the table, I flinched and cowered, anticipating the blow.
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"I didn't think they flinched when Tennessee made a run, which we knew they would do," Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said.
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I constantly flinched as detectives banged on the table or struck the boys in the face while they were being questioned.
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"He was in the shower with me, he took all of my bandages off, and he never flinched," she tearfully said.
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I tried to brace myself, but anticipated the recoil so much that I flinched dramatically every time I pulled the trigger.
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Objects approached and I flinched; they flew by me and I had to stop myself from moving out of their way.
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Mr. Maduro then looked into the air as his wife, Cilia Flores, flinched and reached for another official to brace herself.
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A novice actor, Mr. Feldman flinched when he realized that he would have to strip for a graphic group sex scene.
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Standing by the doorway to his bathroom, Mr. Arena barely flinched when a mouse scurried past his feet on Monday afternoon.
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Clinton's supporters in blue America cringed at Mr. Trump's inflammatory remarks during the campaign, but his supporters throughout red America barely flinched.
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Woods limped and flinched throughout the tournament's four rounds of regulation and the 19 playoff holes he needed to beat Rocco Mediate.
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In testimony on Monday, Officer Liang said he had been startled by a noise and flinched, inadvertently causing the gun to go off.
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In the Giants' locker room, McAdoo has considerable support from the offensive players, largely because he has not flinched when things come apart.
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She flinched, jerking her arms up against the zip-ties and, where the plastic rings dug into her flesh, her skin turned blue.
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Boris Johnson has denied claims that he groped a female journalist "so hard she flinched" at a lunch more than 20 years ago.
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And Robert Mueller himself flinched when he failed to include the obvious finding of obstruction of justice in the conclusions of the report.
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Running back Paul Palmer, who ended his career as the Heisman runner-up, said Arians never flinched, even if the team was outmanned.
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They lifted and settled, flinched like dying nerves as Bobby tramped on them: the sky itself was the color of a shopping bag.
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When I was younger, her presence in my glasses made me feel safe, but now I flinched every time I heard the sound.
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, has not flinched in his insistence that Scalia's seat should be filled by Obama's successor.
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Abel barely flinched though, picking the lingerie up and telling the crowd they'd get him in trouble ... GF Bella Hadid was in the crowd.
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It's also conceivable that Cline flinched, for in not pushing Evie to the edge, she eludes a harrowing, possibly profound exploration of her soul.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied groping the thigh of a woman so hard that she flinched, while editor of the Spectator magazine.
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They never flinched toward action, or even felt their hearts skip a beat faster at the sudden and momentary possibility — is she still underwater?
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Jedrzejczyk flinched at a feint, began to low kick on another feint, and wound up on the floor as Namajunas ran straight through her.
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I braced myself for the call, and even though I'd suspected the truth, it still surprised me, and I flinched when the big reveal came.
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Others might've flinched as we saw a hard object flying straight at us, or allowed for a moment of giddy celebration once we caught it.
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For 230 agonizing minutes, they cheered for every attack, cursed as Brazil squandered scoring opportunities, and flinched every time Germany threatened to end their party.
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Bush, who died on Tuesday at age 92, never flinched, appearing at Wellesley and using her commencement address to explore the complexities of life's choices.
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On Friday, McConnell said the House "began to develop cold feet" following the impeachment vote, and "flinched" instead of sending the articles to the Senate.
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Tiny raised her arms and flinched to curl away from the blow, but the small man lowered his fist with a snort and a chuckle.
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Even though it was a tad unfair to blame Payton for Orlando's broken offense—the new starting lineup is even worse—nobody flinched at Vogel's decision.
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She seemed to intercept glances of open hostility which stung like lashes, so that she flinched and hunched her shoulders, though she knew this wasn't attractive.
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Apparently with not a single buddy to help carry the load, this man was tasked with carrying eight beers back to his seats and never flinched.
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That's when just about everyone got splashed: Both coaches handled it like pros—they hardly flinched—but damn, those players got lucky their season just ended.
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He went on to defeat Villaraigosa by more than 20 points, and barely flinched at the general election challenge from Republican real estate investor John Cox.
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She told me my grandmother's secret was to watch her fingers on the piano keys and see if my mom flinched when she hit a clunker.
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The second star: Ryan Hartman being a jerk – Remember when you were in grade school and you'd fake-punch other kids and then laugh if they flinched?
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As Nabi observed a UNICEF-led measles, rubella, and polio vaccination drive underway in a nearby tent, he noted that none of the children cried or flinched.
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The uncertain promise of intimacy and connection is revealed in a frame made so close one imagines kisser and kissee must have flinched when the shutter clicked.
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When I flinched, she said that if I preferred, I could have a lumpectomy within the week to be certain of what was growing inside me. Whoa.
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A Mosul resident explained that his child no longer flinched as explosions shook his street because many people, including the young, had grown numb to the daily bloodshed.
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Mickelson's playing partner, Henrik Stenson, had not flinched at that run, rolling in dicey, spectacular and lengthy birdie putts from seemingly every quarter of the Royal Troon greens.
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I flinched, because I once had seen a head wedged between the sidewalk and the front door of that bar, the head still attached to a dead body.
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He had never hit me, and never would in our whole relationship, but because aggression puts me in that anxious, high-adrenalin fight-or-flight response, I flinched.
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Redskins star D.J. Swearinger just snatched Terrelle Pryor's soul -- throwing a fake punch at the NY Jets wide receiver ... who FLINCHED like a biiiiiiiiiiiiitch in front of everyone!!!!
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When the pubs reached barring time, and the old men who rented the rooms on either side of mine stumbled home drunk, I flinched awake in my bed.
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"You can smack the side of it," Steel said, and I did; the jellyfish flinched, and a blast of purplish color rippled off from the point of impact.
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We all visibly flinched, some of us dropping to the ground, all of us conditioned to dodge the shrapnel and fire that invariably accompanied loud blasts in Iraq.
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The window projected across the passthrough door, and the wall opposite Adda displayed Rheasilvia Station's metallic latticework whizzing by so close to the Casey's hull cams that Adda flinched.
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A full forty minutes later, the dual carriageway turned into the old Blessington Road, and oncoming traffic shot by so close he flinched in the glare of the lights.
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" The woman flinched as the officer's hand made contact with her genitals, according to the lawsuit, to which the officer replied, "if you resist, I will do this again.
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They barely flinched as Trump called for a lighter sentencing recommendation for his longtime informal adviser, Roger Stone, which was promptly delivered on the orders of his attorney general.
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In a sense, I was a victim of a corporate Stockholm syndrome: I instinctively flinched at the notion of sharing secret information or speaking to media about unfinished products.
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But the way my inner reader had flinched, the way I had hoped I was mistaken — the way I cared — made me realize I'd been caught in the novel's slipstream.
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And we never flinched from making the stories gritty and intense, and eventually expanding the scope of the story, bringing in elements like Primus, their creator, and his nemesis Unicron.
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But the logic of their arguments and accusations leads to impeachment, and there, they have flinched, worried that the public — or at least Republican voters — will rally to his side.
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Asma Kazmi flinched on a recent evening here as she walked out of the community center meeting and came face to face with the charred remains of the Grenfell tower.
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"Twenty years ago, a single generator might not have even flinched if a pipeline went down," said Chatterjee, who was nominated to FERC by President Donald Trump in May 2017.
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Down by as many as 18 in the second half, the Seminoles (18-103, 7-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) never flinched en route to head coach Leonard Hamilton's 500th career win.
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Standing in the middle of a utility command center, he flinched as a cyberattack tripped the breakers in all seven of the grid's low voltage substations, plunging the system into darkness.
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And he believes it's owed to this: When Jack's fist slammed again and again into the hollow door and then through it, an inch from Evelyn's face, she had not flinched.
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A top Oregon Senate Democrat on Tuesday flinched in the face of a Republican walkout, acknowledging that there are not enough votes to pass a major bill to address climate change.
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While the market may have flinched on the first day following news of Nike's latest campaign featuring Kaepernick, it has already begun rebounding, increasing while the rest of the market decreased.
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Still, Trump hasn't flinched at defending Ailes repeatedly and unconditionally: "I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he's helped them," he said last week.
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Stocks also flinched both in Asia and Europe, catching investors that had been expecting to spend the day mostly looking ahead to U.S. jobs data and Sunday's French elections, on the back foot.
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After a 28500-day shutdown in December and January, Trump flinched in his standoff with Pelosi, agreeing to reopen the government without getting billions for his border wall that he had repeatedly demanded.
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Gillum flinched a bit, not defending the program which is a non-starter in Florida and most states around the country, instead seeking to talk up his plans to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
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Foreign leaders, anxiously waiting to hear whether Mr Trump will erect trade barriers to foreign-made goods, will have flinched to hear the new president vow that his policy would be "only America first".
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Finally, one of our best-read articles today is a lyrical meditation on domesticity by a novelist who carefully renovated her family's apartment and then, for a while, flinched over every scratch and spill.
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It's a mixed bunch, often flimsy, with deliberate lurches of tone, and the Coens, as ever, are unable (or unwilling) to decide whether barbarous bloodshed is something to be flinched from or cackled at.
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Back in October 2016, when the Access Hollywood tape first became public, throwing Trump's candidacy into doubt, as Republican officials either went missing or called on him to leave the race, Sessions never flinched.
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A reporter for Syrian state television, in the midst of assuring the audience that life was going on as normal in central Abasiyeen Square, flinched on air at the sound of a nearby projectile.
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He fingered her a little, very softly, and she bit her lip and put on a show for him, but then he poked her too hard and she flinched, and he jerked his hand away.
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There were times when I glanced ahead in the book and flinched at the mighty river of words coming toward me, as muddy and heavy with organic sediment as the Ohio River, Morgan's dominant metaphor.
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There were also a few occasions where Bisping feinted, Henderson flinched but kept his right hand coiled, and then Henderson was able to throw a legitimate punch as Bisping moved in to capitalize on the feint.
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The stock market barely flinched after a coordinated attack on the world's largest oil producer over the weekend because the United States economy is vastly different from the one it was a decade ago, Cramer said.
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But even Fox News, which has mostly stood by star personalities in past scandals, flinched last week after Ms. Pirro's on-air remarks about Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, a Muslim who wears a hijab.
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These miniseries could show more gore than you might have expected (largely because they were made in the 1980s and '90s), but every time they bumped up against something truly dark and terrible, they flinched and looked away.
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His pitch count of 82, just six off his high in the minors this year, forced him out of the game early, but he never flinched, and he gave Pittsburgh a chance to use its bullpen and win.
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When events of the five past weeks were mentioned it was to extol the traditional courage and endurance of soldiers, who flinched not under the heaviest bombardments and the fiercest assaults to which human beings have ever been subjected.
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The world collectively flinched when Jack Cooksey in Perth became the first person to obtain the then new iPhone 6 at his local store, and then subsequently dropped his gadget during a live interview with a local television station.
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In what some on Wall Street are declaring the stock trader's answer to a political protest, Nordstrom stock barely flinched at President Trump's criticism, dipping less than 53% before aggressively reversing course, ending the day up more than 25%.
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The stock market barely flinched after a coordinated attack on the world's largest oil producer over the weekend because the United States economy is vastly different from the one it was a decade ago, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday.
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Marise led the way past a glass dome as tall as a man, filled with stuffed, faded hummingbirds and a staring, dappled fairground horse, its flaring nostrils painted crimson; Robyn flinched from the horse as if from an old enemy.
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I flinched when they sat on the new sofa, and I darted nervous glances at their shoes strolling imperviously over the unmarked floor; every scratch and scrape and stain felt as if it were being inflicted directly to my own flesh.
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But Oswald had flinched aside—as anyone would—and the bullet had gone across the left side to the back, injuring the aorta and vena cava and causing such blood loss that he was white as a piece of paper.
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Mr. Xi, who dominates economic policy and much else besides, has flinched from the harder changes needed for long-term prosperity and has yet to find a way to keep the economy growing without administering ever larger injections of debt.
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As a child, I relished the sound of beads clinking together at the end of my braids as I jumped rope, but flinched while getting my hair pressed, fearing the sting of a hot comb perilously close to my earlobes.
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Don't tell Eve, but this whole presentation was a charade ordered by Carolyn to evaluate the rogue agent, particularly how Eve reacted to images of gore (barely flinched) compared to an image of Villanelle (she was barely able to peek at the screen).
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The most significant factor in the loose deal was that de facto OPEC leader Saudi Arabia had flinched and shown itself willing to make concessions, most notably with arch-rival Iran, by letting the country increase production as it emerged from sanctions.
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And while I'd already hit high school, I'd never seen Jamaica, so I flinched at the shouts once the airport came into view, and then again at all the clapping once we finally hit the tarmac, and I thought, So the hell what.
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For a long time, even after I had shed the anti-gay, misogynist-hued aspects of the faith, I reflexively flinched at pop culture jokes about Christianity — anything from digs at weird Christians homeschooling their kids in Mean Girls to arch GQ articles about Hillsong.
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Bourses flinched in both Asia and Europe and Wall Street saw a subdued start as investors, who had been expecting to spend the day mostly looking at U.S. jobs data - that came in strongly - and ahead to Sunday's French election, were caught off guard.
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Inches from the screen, he mouthed Barry's dialogue ("We can still do the plan—it just got off to a rocky start"), wheezed along with Ronny, swept his arm to knock the bandages off the shelf, and flinched as they flew at the camera.
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Angus Robertson, the Scottish nationalist leader in Parliament, intoned that he was not prepared to be nice to the prime minister who had taken Scotland out of the EU. Mr Cameron, who led the referendum campaign in 2014 to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom, flinched.
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The complaint further claims the officer commented on the length of the woman's shorts while sliding her hands up her legs and that when she flinched when the officer touched her genitals, the officer said "if you resist, I will do this again," a violation of TSA policy.
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Each time my boy sputtered something with an evident accent, in the weeks after it was brought to my attention, I flinched from memories of how my speech has shaped the way the world interacts with me and how the speech of others has impacted how I interact with them.
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I'll admit that I flinched a little when the topic of autism was first introduced in the video, with an overbearingly emotional shift in the background music and a pair of somber title screens informing the viewer that Kimbo's youngest son, Kevlar, has autism, and that he trains with Kimbo every day.
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" Matt Bell on Gordon Lish: "He's famous in class—and he did this in ours—he makes everybody read something they've written, and he just stops you when he feels like you've made a mistake or you've flinched in some way, so to get through a paragraph in class was sometimes difficult.
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Although global bond prices are coming under pressure on worries about inflation, the Japanese bond market has hardly flinched as the Bank of Japan last week offered unlimited buying of 10-year bonds at a yield of 0.11 percent, to clamp down on any challenges against its policy to control the yield around zero percent.
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" And, of course, there were all the days back in Louisville, Ky., when he ran alongside the school bus so that people would notice him, and all the Sundays when, quiet, humble and a Christian, he walked out of church and flinched because "the white people still looked at me like I was dirty.
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He might have flinched on his gun control record, and bewildered some with his defense of what he thinks Fidel Castro's Cuba did well, but his overall message of social equity — that is, equality in the delivery of social services, and his mantra of support for the middle class — was clear and of the moment.
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" Mike DeBonis and Amber Phillips write: "[T]he collapse of the repeal effort has left conservative activists fuming about how the GOP could have flinched and pondering payback for the party establishment — particularly several moderate senators who voted for ACA repeal legislation when it had no chance of becoming law only to balk when it did.
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It was a very emotional experience for her, and actually the actor who plays my father, when he came up afterward — he really wanted to meet my mom because he's the nicest guy ever — but when he came up to meet my mom, my mom literally flinched and kind of couldn't even look him in the eye.
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The venue we liked best was the East, in Crown Heights, which had been established, in part, in response to the Black Arts Movement, which was itself founded in reaction to the death of Malcolm X. In those days, anti-honky fever was high, and, just as I flinched when I encountered racial slurs in books or on TV, I backed away from the militancy of the plays I saw at the East and elsewhere.
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