flinty
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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
Under the astutely unfussy direction of Joe Mantello, Ms. Metcalf’s remarkably fine performance is flinty, funny and savagely unsentimental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The second lord, the straight-backed old man in the mail bymie, studied Reek with flinty eyes.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But Carney directly invoked the darker, flintier aspects of North American history when he was asked on Aug. 22 whether his country was now at war.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
I mention this only because in recent months, in need of flintier forms of solace, I’ve increasingly and somewhat guiltily been bookmarking on my laptop the poems of Mark Ford.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
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
By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief in survival of the flintiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would the flintiest of fathers, would the most primitive rock-hearted of parents, resist an appeal like this?
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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