To say she never flinches would be an understatement: she exults in her strength and ability.

NEWYORKER: Faat Kin��

In effect, the brain flinches when it sees someone in pain in the same way that we might wince.

BBC: Men and women reported similar levels of pain

The interconnectedness of the Transatlantic market means that when a European bank is pinched, a bank in the U.S. flinches.

FORBES: We Are All Europeans Now

Scotty flinches but keeps on playing, and then a Budweiser can flies up and clips Marty right in the forehead.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care

It is the coming attraction that we dread, and from which cinema, by and large, has turned its face, just as Anne, her condition worsening, flinches from a mirror.

NEWYORKER: Love Hurts

America has thousands of helicopters but is already worried about its ballooning, billion-dollar bills for wear and tear on its military equipment (and the administration flinches at the thought of military involvement in yet another Muslim country).

ECONOMIST: Choppers are vital��and hard to find

He flinches as easily as a snail.

ECONOMIST: English snobbery

Mr Hollande scarcely flinches.

ECONOMIST: Books about the French president