(1) May, normally so unflappable, seemed to have realised at last that she had something in common with Roy Hodgson – an impossible job.
(2) So, of course he is going to suffer, it doesn’t matter if he has an amazing job.” The prince said the event was an opportunity to show that even “unflappable” sporting personalities could experience mental health problems.
(3) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
(4) As "Lou" Carr, he become assistant managing editor for national news, a much admired, unflappable figure who worked on every major story from the era of Eisenhower to the administration of the first George Bush.
(5) The ability to be a good listener, unflappable and patient enough to deal with irascible family members, mediating family spats and calming ruffled feathers also helps.
(6) Lagarde's unflappable calm seems to come quite naturally.
(7) There were chances in a lively and entertaining last few minutes, with Rashford failing to get a touch to a Martial cross then having the ball whipped from his toes by the heroically unflappable Jagielka, though ominously most of them were at Everton’s end.
(8) It is a look that matches his backbench style: unflappable but not insouciant; with authority but no menace and, it once seemed, palpably relieved to be off the front line.
(9) It's his spirit, his guile, his unflappable conviction in professional knowledge and practice that you need to channel.
(10) It's the one thing that ruffles her otherwise unflappable demeanour.
(11) The sport seems to mimic how she conducts business: avoiding collisions with her counterparts, all the while looking unflappable and elegant.
(12) Debonair and unflappable, former journalist Les Hinton served as Rupert Murdoch's consigliere for over a decade, smoothing the ruffled feathers of the rich and powerful whenever they were on the receiving end of stories published in News International's stable of titles.
(13) What is incontestable is that Timpson was a thoroughly unflappable professional, who was not afraid of getting up at 3am to face any challenge.
(14) The double revelation of Letterman's at-work sexual practices and the blackmail plot against him left Manhattan's unflappable TV world stunned.
(15) Yet Stephen's is the sort of idealism that turns out to be thin-skinned and highly strung, in spite of the apparent unflappable competence that so impresses both his own boss, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and his enemy's PR chief, Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti).
(16) Terry Burns, as he is known to everyone, is described as charming and unflappable, a "down to earth grammar school boy from the north-east" whose passions are "golf and Queens Park Rangers".
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Presidential debate highlights: Clinton and Trump’s final face-off Looking increasingly irritable, he locked horns with the unflappable Fox News moderator, Chris Wallace, and repeatedly cut off his Democratic rival – including, on one occasion, interrupting her mid-sentence with the line: “ Such a nasty woman .” However, it was Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of an election he is currently projected to lose that will stand out from the ill-tempered clash on the debate stage on the University of Nevada campus in Las Vegas.
(18) Surrounded by 10 men on a hot debate stage at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California, Carly Fiorina was unflappable and commanding as she maneuvered questions about foreign policy and sexism.
(19) Previously seen as the unflappable Supermac, his culling of a third of the cabinet redefined him as a panicker.
(20) A nervous and sensitive man, his public posture of unflappability served to reassure the electorate that Britain remained strong and secure.
Unflinching
Definition:
(a.) Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) Maybe it's this unflinching eye that has turned British audiences off Bond in the past 20 years.
(3) On foreign policy, a president who has been at loggerheads with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over a Middle East peace process promised unflinching support for the state.
(4) Over the last 50 years, Ballard's indiscriminate and unflinching gaze has worked hard to penetrate the myriad surface realities of our disturbed modernity and to tap into its unconscious energies.
(5) A compelling new documentary, The Thrilla in Manila, is unflinching in the way it documents the systematic racial abuse Ali directed against Frazier for the next five years - culminating in the final fight of their epic trilogy in 1975.
(6) But there was a nervousness among some senior Tories that Osborne had abandoned the last vestige of compassionate Conservatism and bet the farm on such an unflinching approach to the deficit.
(7) China’s retribution was swift and unflinching: placing Liu Xia under house arrest and cutting off her telephone and internet connections.
(8) But she was unflinching in answering questions and, as a result, people felt able to ask her the difficult ones.
(9) Bishop's next two novels will be published in 2014 and 2015 and the judges for the Costa prize praised Unexpected Lessons in Love as "an unflinching, darkly funny story of love, obsession and illness that is unexpected in every way".
(10) The real surprise about May’s Brexit strategy is that it represents a big departure from the unflinchingly reality-based political assessments that have been the hallmark of Britain’s international policies for centuries.
(11) The only possible solution to this rather hopeless situation, Frank believed, was socialism – although this was a conclusion that, like Rostow's unflinching adherence to capitalism (and damn the costs), he reached before carrying out his research.
(12) The book is one of the most unflinching studies of war in our literature.” More than a century later, Gore Vidal added his own assessment: “It is simply not possible to read Grant’s memoirs without realising that the author is a man of first-rate intelligence.” Personal Memoirs immediately sold more than 300,000 copies.
(13) To be sure, Merkel emphasised the need for growth in her message of congratulation to the new French president but while the rhetoric may change the German policy stance promises to be unflinching.
(14) Oscar’s weekly unflinching coverage of his illnesses and suffering, including that of losing his sight, touched me so deeply that on hearing of the remarkable change in circumstances of people now living healthy lives with HIV I think of him and so wish it had come in time for him, and so many others.
(15) On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers, who will play an invaluable part in the case of an invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meantime on numerous occasions to restrain.
(16) But there is a problem with the apparently unflinching realism of Kathryn Bigelow's film.
(17) Its report is unflinching in describing rape, killing and torture – all part of what it calls a “ scorched earth policy ” against civilians by government forces.
(18) Václav Havel and Desmond Tutu have campaigned for Liu Xiaobo to receive the award for his "unflinching and peaceful advocacy for reform"; Beijing has warned the committee not to .
(19) They are known as much for their outlandish publicity stunts as for their unflinching look at how animals are treated globally.
(20) Violence, though, was depressingly familiar between the Muslim majority and the Christian minority and when riots erupted in 2002, Moses's parents, who were obvious but unflinching targets, were attacked in their home and killed.