Unflinching \Un*flinch"ing\, a. Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding. -- {Un*flinch"ing*ly}, adv.
With unflinching intelligence and perception, Mr. Malle bore into his subject: How Lucien, a rough farm boy, became a vicious brute, a Nazi collaborator simply because the local resistance refused to hire him.
What makes "Long Day's Journey into Night" special is the completeness of its characters, real people who are painted with unflinching honesty.