flinty

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Flinty and funny, McDormand never asks for pity for her character, who craves her independence but wouldn’t say no to a living wage.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020

Flinty, funny, stylish, and mannish, a blend of Amelia Earhart and Humphrey Bogart, Dorothea adores Jamie, but her Depression-era rigor precludes her saying so.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

Flinty vs. flakey, Feng Shui vs. a stuffed and mounted javelina, tornado vs. earthquake.

From Golf Digest • May 18, 2010

Flinty, arid Baluchistan is a sparsely populated land that only its sons could love.

From Time Magazine Archive

I walked along the cliff to the gangway behind Flinty Point, and descended in order to see what havoc the landslip had made with the graves.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore