(1) The beach was flinty ; there was no pavement, no electricity, no scuba divers with credit cards.(2) 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.(3) Burley was hewn from flinty , industrial Ayrshire.(4) The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie.(5) Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.(6) 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.(7) Coupled with the characteristic flinty aftertaste of the Chablis this is a great white to slurp.(8) The latter spoke first, gaze turning flinty as she turned her attention to the uninvited guest.(9) 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.(10) He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow.(11) Its problem is that it is a very flinty wine that leaves a kind of sour aftertaste on every possible opportunity.(12) 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.(13) He is a famously flinty treasury secretary, a man suspicious of international aid and bailouts, who isn't afraid to say so.(14) 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.(15) 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.(16) He is able to get outside his flinty , tightly wrapped personality just enough to convince a majority of voters that he deserves another chance.
