flinty
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Their pay has been frozen at the equivalent of $100 a year ever since flinty voters etched it into the state constitution back in ’89.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
But there is still a combination of flinty determination and composure under pressure that has restricted England to just eight victories in 46 meetings across more than a century.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
"It's a big old cheese -- there's a lot going on. The texture is beautiful: it's flinty as you break it apart; the crystalline in there are so delicate," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sweat, who is 70, has a golfer’s tan, flinty eyes, and a shirt unbuttoned just a little too far.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
Her look was daunting; wry and flinty and knowing.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
A mournful trumpet and elusive flute joined in, suggesting the bucolic, wistful side of Copland, though with flintier harmonies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2020
Gugino’s Sisco is flintier that Lopez's, and shades of her personality show up in “Jett.”
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2019
Colman and Weisz are Lanthimos veterans, and Weisz is even flintier here than she was in “The Lobster.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018
Dave Murphy, however, remained flintier in the aftermath: never able to fully unload himself of three years’ worth of layered fury.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2015
The longma beat its wings, and Anja’s voice grew flintier.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
It would take the flintiest heart not to feel for Jofra Archer.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
The Granite State features some of the country's best cross-country skiing trails and resorts, and cross-country skiing is generally regarded as the flintiest of winter sports.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2013
Graeme’s appeal touched even the flintiest hearts among the conservative commentariat.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2012
But Pakula and Mulligan held out for Peck, the screen's flintiest rock of movie rectitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
That knowledge is an azure and bottomless lake into which I can toss my blackest pebbles of fear, my flintiest doubts of the future.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
