How To Use Flinty In A Sentence
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His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call.
A History of English Literature
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his flinty gaze
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Seas shift their beds, rivers change their channels, continents grow old with the weight of years and hoary crowns bestud the islands, while ocean currents grind their rocky feet to dust and scatter their flinty ribs in the secret chambers of the deep.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West.
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The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie.
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Courage and insight, action, motion are flinty , arrogant, sharp, fight.
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.
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Rumpled and flinty-looking, with a kind of rawhide, folksy sincerity, Russell epitomized the rugged and independent spirit of the West.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West
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Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry?
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Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work.
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At times, the performance even seemed to display in equal measures the vitality of a young Eric Black and the flinty resolve of Terry Butcher.
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He is able to get outside his flinty, tightly wrapped personality just enough to convince a majority of voters that he deserves another chance.
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Chert is sometimes called hornstone; also the term chert is often applied to any impure flinty rock, including jaspers.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
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Curiously, they all carry (wear, pet, hug) rocks on strings like prehistoric necklaces - a metaphor, perhaps, for survival in a flinty world of not very much.
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But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges.
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She gazed upon those chiseled granite features, the sharp angle of his jaw, the stubborn chin, the hooded eyes whose flinty gaze could penetrate with spearlike precision.
Earl of Durkness
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His epic-length reflections sweep aside not only the flinty facts, but the vital importance of history and tradition in our constitutional architecture.
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It was, in many ways, his finest appearance - the flinty New Englander's feelings on full display for perhaps the first time in his candidacy.
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As loose cooperation between countries, the economic cooperation in GMS confronts flinty strategic and practical challenges.
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The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
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Can there even be a Conservative with a heart so black and flinty that he or she would oppose a program to improve the quality and accessiblity of American community colleges?
Obama: Community colleges can help boost ailing economy
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So here was Orwell, famous for being a flinty man of integrity, in effect throwing in the towel.
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This show of sincere affection had no affect on the flinty-headed calculator of other people's nativities.
Jack London's Parentage
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Under my feet the flinty soil shattered into a thousand arrows pointing a hundred different ways.
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As I tramped pale flinty paths through the cornfields, larks sang and March hares frolicked.
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His father was a naval commander of "flinty and adamant" Tory views who became a school bursar.
Christopher Hitchens obituary
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Chevy's chassis boffins have reinforced the convertible so that it is at least as stiff as the coupe—despite its lacking the cross-bracing rigidity of a hardtop—and the shock and spring rates are just as flinty as the coupe's.
A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All
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The heat of this water before it rose out of the earth could not be ascertained, as water looses all its heat above 212 (as soon as it is at liberty to expand) by the exhalation of a part, but the flinty bason which is deposited from it shews that water with great degrees of heat will dissolve siliceous matter.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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The latter spoke first, gaze turning flinty as she turned her attention to the uninvited guest.
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Her character, Anna, is one of the great female parts - too flinty to be dismissed as a ladette, too smart to be written off as a hedonistic bimbo.
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I happen to like feisty political personalities with regional color whether they are flinty Vermonters or silky Mississipians.
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London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho.
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It is generally medium to full bodied with aflinty aftertaste.
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In Sarah, he had found a tall, power-dressing, glamorous partner, serious and flinty, with a successful business record in developing a right-on public relations company.
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I mean, how confident are you that you will convince those flinty eyed people over at Finance that you've got a case for more money?
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Its problem is that it is a very flinty wine that leaves a kind of sour aftertaste on every possible opportunity.
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He had a hard, flinty, businesslike look to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
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Combined with his flinty voice, the results are often bluesy and hypnotic without being dirge-like.
The Short List: Steven Van Zandt Goes to Norway in 'Lilyhammer'
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But she is a flinty character who won't leave without a fight.
Times, Sunday Times
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To let the sailors go ashore with us, we drew up the boat on the rock several feet, and made it fast with a line knotted into a crevice between two fragments of flinty sienite rock at the foot of the crags.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
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Now, there was a flinty look in Eddie's eye and a grim expression on his face as he sat down alongside the assistant coach and the manager.
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The protection of these historic cities is faced with the flinty challenge and good opportunity.
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He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow.
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Duvall gave him a flinty stare.
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The winter wheats are, as a rule, more soft and starchy than the spring wheats, which are usually corneous or flinty to different degrees.
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
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An excellent performance against Kildare in Leinster and a thrilling win over Offaly in the first round of the qualifiers made Carlow a more flinty proposition than normal, but Limerick stayed calm and eased their way diligently past.
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There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West.
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But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
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In photos from this period, the flinty gaze is not yet apparent.
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His immediate response showed showed his flinty ad-lib ability.
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Shape and texture terms tend to be applied to wines with a high degree of acidity, as angular, austere, flinty, steely.
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Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.
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It appears to be a little cavern of death; a wooden stake has been driven through the privates of one of the fellas, while a flinty knife points at the woman.
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In their intense concentration, they neither move nor whimper while their brown fur, wet and bemired with hunting, appears all of one color with the earth like two animate objects formed from the flinty Pennsylvania soil.
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Her character, Anna, is one of the great female parts - too flinty to be dismissed as a ladette, too smart to be written off as a hedonistic bimbo.
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She often has only a few moments of screentime to get across what phase Lureen is in, but as we follow her from a wild and flirty girl to a flinty woman trapped in a loveless marriage we feel a complete and three dimensional character.
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Burley was hewn from flinty, industrial Ayrshire.
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Meanwhile at the opposite counter a deaf and grisly tradesman was casting a flinty look at certain cards, apparently combining advantages of business with religion, and shoutingly proposed to him in
Daniel Deronda
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On the outside she is as hard as nails, those flinty eyes constantly darting about, seeking the next opportunity to make a quick buck.
The Sun
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London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho.
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Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry?
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Portraying the flinty faces of science - daunting complexity twinned with numbing wonder - demands both craft and art.
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Chert is sometimes called hornstone; also the term chert is often applied to any impure flinty rock, including jaspers.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
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Bougrier Tourraine 1998 Sauvignon Blanc, $9.95 - A delicate, crisp white wine with tart fruit flavours and a subtle, flinty finish.
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He is a famously flinty treasury secretary, a man suspicious of international aid and bailouts, who isn't afraid to say so.
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His immediate response showed showed his flinty ad-lib ability.
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The flinty soil there makes for a robust, nutty grain and the sea frets mellow it to a delicious flavour
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The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
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Snarf it with a flinty white and think of me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coupled with the characteristic flinty aftertaste of the Chablis this is a great white to slurp.
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This wine is spot-on in quality and price, and reveals rounded apple notes threaded with flinty acidity. 7 / 10
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At 70, the flinty jazz diva took her final bow.
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland.
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He had bright, flinty eyes and an air of silent confidence - one of those men whose alpha status seems to emanate from their pores, their rank in any group somehow implicit, beyond question.
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Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour.
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland.
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I'll provide some facts and my own point of view on our recent history to challenge his flinty attitude.
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From the coiled, flinty Gethsemane, through the almost jaunty I'll Tag Along and One Door Opens to the slurred tango of First Breath, this is an album of exciting accomplishment.
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Ill-concealed beneath the impeccably civilised surface of the Portuguese filmmaker's comedies there bristles a flinty refusal to take any prisoners.
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Classic Sancerre ingredients all coming together skillfully with sharpish gooseberry fruit rolling along a mineral path leading to a flinty finale. 5 Stars.
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Tickets for a private Fred-ception are $500. $50 is what it takes for flinty Granite Staters to get into the general reception.
Jennifer Donahue: View from New Hampshire: There's Not As Much Red Without Fred
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The beach was flinty; there was no pavement, no electricity, no scuba divers with credit cards.
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I settled for one hand on the lower rung and a flinty gaze into the middle distance, careful not to meet his eye.
