Meanings
- not comparableWithout blinking; firmly.
Unblinkingly the girl kept her first vigil.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 2073 more examples
She stood this inspection unblinkingly, incapable of the little insincerities of self-consciousness, but when it was over, and Bradly had resumed his normal face, she gave a relieved wriggle, as if satisfied by an ordeal which obviously satisfied Bradly, for he said with approval, "Comes well, that hat; paint you in that hat; picks up reflected lights a treat, that hat."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 105To restore investor confidence, Lula installed an unblinkingly orthodox economic team at the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance, which hiked interest rates yet further and cut public investment, to achieve a primary fiscal surplus higher even than the figure the IMF had demanded.
2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VIIIn the sprawling Reddit community r/collapse, people instead try to stare unblinkingly at the unravelling of civilization.
2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
Translations
Greek ασκαρδαμυκτί
- ασκαρδαμυκτί (askardamyktí)without blinking
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