No, Mary thought, with unflinching loyalty to what appeared to her to be the true view, having lost what is best, I do not mean to pretend that any other view does instead.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The moral attitude, the psychological gesture, which thus became the main interest of Alfieri's plays, was, as might be expected from such a man, nearly always his own moral attitude, his own psychological gesture; he himself, his uncompromising, unhesitating, unflinching, curt and emphatic nature, is always the hero or heroine of the play, however much the situation, the incidents, the other characteristics may vary.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
He felt them thoughtful and sad, and yet more unflinching, stronger and keener for the inevitable day.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey