| 单词 | flinty |
| 例句 | There were no springs, and the crust of topsoil was so thin that the flinty bones stuck through. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed a flinty self-confidence that protected him like a shell from the world’s assaults. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There in the flinty hills of the Ozarks, I fought for the lives of my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His flinty eyes lifted to meet his son's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This riddling figure with flinty eyes isn’t the Locke who stood on the rooftop of his estate and spoke so gently to me or who chased me, laughing, through its halls. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even through the blood I could smell the flinty gunpowder from the bullet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I stare flintily at the guard shack, willing a boat to appear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z From far back in the flinty hills, the monotonous call of a hoot owl floated down in the silent night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The second lord, the straight-backed old man in the mail bymie, studied Reek with flinty eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then Raizel and I stepped outside into the flinty sunlight, the first fireflies emerging to sip from the Stockyards’ puddles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A bride and groom pose outside a flinty chapel. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly her eyes had a flinty look, and her smile was predatory. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They came from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the bayou country of Louisiana, the Red River bottoms of Texas, and the flinty hills of the Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the flinty trees I could just hear the sound of the main road but there was no way I could walk that far. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z One was gaunt, with flinty eyes, a long white beard, and a face as hard as a winter frost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A man joined the woman, his eyes suspicious and flinty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned to stare at me, their expressions flinty and spiteful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Tom went out of the room and they heard his clodhopper feet knocking on the flinty ground outside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were flinty too, black and sharp, but the years and the salt winds had turned his hair the grey of a winter sea, flecked with whitecaps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then, one evening, it rained, a flinty blustery rain, a strange shower in the dry season, and perhaps it was why Odenigbo did not go to the bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a gray house on the corner whose owners were indifferent to their dog’s feral displays, and a line of cottages where the wives stared out of the windows with flinty expressions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z From far back in the flinty hills, the long, lonesome howl of a timber wolf floated down in the silent night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The two flinty characters are more likely to expose their own vulnerable bellies to outsiders than to each other. ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ Review: Sharp Curves Ahead for Next 2,000 Miles 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The wine's steely, minerally, and yes, "flinty" character was a perfect complement to the salty/sweet taste of the clams. ‘Listening’ to Sancerre Tell Its Story 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z His flinty baritone was dialed down to match the somber aftermath of insurrection. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z Jennifer, portrayed with a flinty earthiness suffused with quiet warmth by Ms. Day, is frustrated that Bob chooses to remain as ignorant as he can about the progress of his disease and options for treatment. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z The trouble is that Blood Ties has none of the flinty, worked-on little lines that enliven the best thrillers and help distract from implausibilities of plot. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z Instead he adventurously explored the heritage of flinty individualism that runs through American music. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z Though fictional, this town reflects certain aspects of New England — like the plaques on older houses and patrician dropped “r”s — with absolute, flinty accuracy. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The Treasure” is like the work of Samuel Beckett’s long-lost Balkan cousin — bleak, stoic and suffused with a flinty, exasperated empathy for its ridiculous characters. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In her flinty 2019 memoir, “Face It,” Harry says she “was playing at being a cartoon fantasy onstage,” much like Marilyn Monroe. Once More Into the Vaults: Blondie on the Music That Defined Its Legacy 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z There’s no other sound in music precisely like Mary Halvorson’s guitar, which she plays with a flinty attack, a spidery finesse and a shiver of wobbly delay. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z "Dead Man's Float" is, as its title would suggest, a flinty and psalmist look at mortality and wonder. Jim Harrison on spirits, bad poetry and the wonder of nature 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Violin, saxophone and an unruly electric guitar all emerge at points to wrestle with Bock’s bracing vocal, but each one ultimately cedes the spotlight to her flinty presence. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z One of the touching aspects of Bergman Week was seeing the respect shown to the director by the islanders – flinty farming folk, suspicious of outsiders. In search of Ingmar Bergman 2011-07-06T16:13:04Z To this form, she brought a flinty, distinctly 20th-century American sensibility. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z His singing voice, as usual, was reedy and resilient, satiny along the edges but flinty at its core. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z It’s a difficult part splendidly played by Melissa Flaim, who utterly avoids a villainous stereotype with a flinty yet not unfeeling sense of right and wrong. The Welders’ ‘Not Enuf Lifetimes’ explores the perils of trying to do good Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “Bleak, stoic and suffused with a flinty, exasperated empathy for its ridiculous characters.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sally4Ever’ and ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’ 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Her flinty but compassionate portrait of an embittered woman gets under your skin, so that even as you’re taken aback by Pauline’s ruthlessness, you can’t help rooting for her. Theater Review: ‘Him,’ by Daisy Foote, Stars Hallie Foote and Tim Hopper 2012-10-10T02:00:00Z But an interview would be off limits, Mr. Koons insisted, changing his tune only when Mrs. Koons tossed him a flinty sideways glance, took him by the arm and spun him in a reporter’s direction. Jeff Koons Lends a Hand and a Name 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z 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. ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In one memorable episode, “Plague,” a typhus outbreak forced the flinty prairie dwellers to stay at home in panicked isolation. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Little House on the Prairie’ 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z He’s a grouch but also a professional, with a deep knowledge of his craft and a flinty sense of honor. ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Her voice was full and even but with a tantalizing flinty core. Music Review: Virginia Woolf?s Words, a Singer?s Voice 2011-05-03T22:04:56Z Hart works elegantly in the flinty, melancholic language – visual and verbal – of 1970s American crime cinema, but with a modern feminist consciousness, constantly questioning and chafing against genre conventions. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The flinty sound he summoned in the most fraught passages certainly conveyed its hurtling angst. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z There are other good things in “Driving Home”: perceptive essays about Philip Larkin and Robert Lowell, much flinty writing about sailing. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z The greatest artist of the 20th century, Picasso, acknowledged how much he owed to this painter of flinty landscapes, dazzling still life arrangements, and taciturn portraits. Paul C?zanne at 172: Google Doodle celebrates a (still) life 2011-01-19T11:49:42Z Mr. Sparks favored a clean, flinty tone, combining the brisk harmonic fluency of bebop with the bite and feeling of the blues. Melvin Sparks, Guitarist, Is Dead at 64 2011-03-21T03:37:26Z Mr. Shannon imbues Mike with the same flinty masculinity that he brought to his working-class character in “Take Shelter,” minus the air of grim foreboding. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z He emphasized the flinty harmonic writing and jagged edges of Copland’s 1930 Piano Variations, this composer’s most modernist work for the instrument. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The dual aspects of flinty and vulnerable that color Barkin’s performances on screen are left to do serious combat off screen as she strives, still, for equilibrium. Magazine Preview: Ellen Barkin Is No Uptown Girl 2011-04-22T14:15:12Z Strangers say hello; little independent shops sell toys, wicker baskets and sit-up-and-beg bicycles; people chatter over morning coffee - all in a world overlooked by ochre houses, pantiled eaves and the flinty ruins of a castle. Bungay - the perfect country retreat 2010-12-21T10:57:00Z While Jay is predictably gruff and flinty, the writers have given him more texture and dimension than most, which is just one reason “Modern Family” is at the moment the best network sitcom. The TV Watch: Old Boys? Network? Hardly. How About Lots of Tired Geezer Channels? 2011-01-27T23:14:39Z Drink Crisply bitter pale ales; dry, flinty white wines; water. How to eat: tuna salad 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” he said, looking at me, now flinty eyed. 'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Okazaki’s firm, flinty touch gives his guitar playing a feeling of warmth and dependability — the comfort of a heavy blanket — even when he’s capering through an odd time signature or chasing down a crooked melody. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Harper, who most recently helmed balloon adventure, "The Aeronauts," and the flinty character study "Wild Rose," seems out of his league here. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The film is both “tender and flinty,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in June. DVDs: The Devil Inside and the Demon in Disguise 2010-10-23T05:00:00Z While she shares the stage with the dancer Elizabeth Ward, the work is most grounded in the presence of Ms. Dorvillier, who attends to her tasks with a flinty determination. Dance Review: A Search for Freedom in a Noisy, Wired World 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z He gave blazing performances of Copland’s flinty Piano Sonata and two fiendish works by the maverick composer Frederic Rzewski that incorporate labor movement songs and anthems. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Why not convey it through flinty, atonal music? When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z That Western vibe notwithstanding, her obsession remains New England, and she seems to embody its particular brand of flinty assuredness. Stage Fright: Daisy Foote on Writing Since the Death of Her Father, Horton 2012-09-27T22:29:22Z Dave Murphy, however, remained flintier in the aftermath: never able to fully unload himself of three years’ worth of layered fury. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z She was flinty, in fact, insisting before agreeing to be interviewed that questions about a bridal gown never be raised. Front Row: Is Issa in Line for Throne? 2010-11-24T20:50:00Z Fake or real, it exerts a pull on those inclined to flaunt it as a flinty fashion statement. 2010-01-21T08:08:00Z More than just a missed opportunity to lend flinty female heroes a female musical voice, the announcements were simply the latest examples of women being sorely unheard in film music. Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Wright is flinty and outspoken, offering a clear-eyed perspective on gender identity. ‘Darling Days’: His anatomy said girl. His reality said boy. 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The vernacular is sheer Washingtonian — the righteous speeches, the flinty debates, the double-talk and spin. To kill a queen: Mary vs. Elizabeth in Schiller classic ‘Mary Stuart’ at the Folger 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But the music here becomes as a restless aural collage pierced with flinty dissonance. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Owen excels at giving flinty performances, and playing men who are flawed but trying to be noble. “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Nice to hear a nearly 10 peiece orchestra playing the robust score, though, and the two leads — Michael Innocenti as a flinty Frank and Eleanor J. Todd as his wife — are terrific. DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z A rare recent exception: The Hurt Locker, which pinned an oakleaf cluster of flinty heroism on the chests of American soldiers in Iraq. Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus: The Paths of Gory 2011-12-04T18:37:40Z “You don’t know/What I know,” Mr. Andrews bellows on “You Don’t Know,” one of his flintier originals, “And you ain’t been where I’m going.” New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z Nowhere Boy's real achievement is that, by exploring this, it manages to make Lennon a vulnerable, sympathetic character, though in real life many people found him flinty, rude and difficult to handle. Nowhere Boy is everywhere faithful to John Lennon's teenage years 2012-10-11T09:02:08Z But taking charge and speaking her mind come easily to Mrs. Foley, a flinty New Englander with a model’s frame who raised five children and worked as a nurse practitioner. Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z At once amorous and flinty, a hippie dreamer and a resilient pioneer, Louisa joins Tilly in a hardscrabble effort to escape his ghosts: “Lean years. Love years. . . Let’s do this until we break.” Review | Salvatore Scibona’s second novel trots the globe yet misses nothing 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Crumbling, flinty stacked walls had become exquisite rock gardens. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z Descended from riesling and trollinger, the kerner grape showed off flinty mineral notes with a touch of raisins and honey — like its parent riesling, but with its own style. Dining in Style, at 90 Miles an Hour 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z She carries a bound prompt book and introduces us to the town and its inhabitants in a tone that manages to be full of feeling yet flinty enough to keep sentimentality at bay. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z A soprano saxophonist with a streamlined intensity and a flinty iconoclasm, Mr. Newsome is most often heard these days on his own solo-sax recordings. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The idea is for Katniss, who’s both the spark of a revolution and its flinty strength, to rouse the masses with a heroic scene. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z So if, for the remainder of his very long career, he was a bit flinty, could you blame him? Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Raised Catholic but now proudly agnostic, Morris fervently — or since he is played by favorite-son Clooney, flintily — embraces abortion rights, the welfare state and the end of the internal combustion engine. The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z This journey began with a tender account of “Sunflower Slow Drag” by Scott Hayden and Scott Joplin, then segued into Stravinsky’s flinty, discombobulating “Piano-Rag Music.” Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The lightly fictionalized screenplay seems to have been written specifically for Robert Duvall, who plays Bush as a flinty curmudgeon who wields a shotgun at strangers. 'Get Low': Perfect cast is life of the funeral party 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z Mr. Stone’s lush compositions and suave camera movements may surprise — and maybe offend — fans of Mr. Winslow’s lean, flinty prose, but the sumptuousness of the movie is among its chief delights. | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z Cho uses food as both the bridge and the gulf between a talented young Korean American chef named Ray and his father, a flinty immigrant who never got along with his child. Review | Three plays from the Women’s Voices buffet 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Flavors of mango and grilled pineapple, balanced by great freshness and a salty, flinty finish. Perspective | You have to work to find them, but Swiss wines are well worth the chase 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z They often mixed heartfelt revelations and flinty punch lines. Maggie Roche, Who Led a Harmonic Trio of Singing Sisters, Dies at 65 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z What courage was now growing from this flinty ground! Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z A mournful trumpet and elusive flute joined in, suggesting the bucolic, wistful side of Copland, though with flintier harmonies. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Philip’s eyes go flinty as she speaks, and on the way home, he fairly flays Elizabeth with his words. 'The Americans' Recap: Mother Russia and Her Children 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z It recalled another film using American disintegration as the backdrop for myth, 2009's Winter's Bone; together, they suggested a new sub-genre, the American Exotic, shaping flinty myth from forays into the American subcontinent. Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z For Mr. Rogers, it was his flinty accumulation of ideas on “JLR,” a prowling blues patterned after B. B. King’s “The Thrill Is Gone.” Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Amanda Castro’s flinty Anita turns in a suitably atomic “America,” with its zestful feud over which island — Puerto Rico or Manhattan — is best. Crossing Cultures, and Genres, at the Glimmerglass Festival 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Even so, Mr. Bengston, a flinty contrarian with the soul of a prankster, never allowed himself to be pinned down by any particular style or movement. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Fly, flinty and self-created, Regina was at one time both the paper’s publisher and editor in chief. Soul Told Black Musicians’ Stories. Its Archives Are Going Digital. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Williams’s memoir is as flinty, earthy and plain-spoken as her songs. From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Clinch doesn’t merely introduce a younger “covetous old sinner”; he presents a Scrooge quite unlike that flinty Grinch. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Aghdashloo, who executive produced "The Cuban," steals the film with her flinty performance. Music helped treat her father's dementia, and that's why Shohreh Aghdashloo made "The Cuban" 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The program included the premiere of a fiercely difficult work by the flinty American composer Frederic Rzewski simply called “Four Hands.” Music Review: Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee Performed Days Before Marriage 2013-09-04T18:56:21Z When the piano dreamily enters with wistful, wandering lines spiked with flinty harmonies, Bernstein just listens, overcome. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Her flinty, Old Testament eye-for-an-eye search for her father's killer guides the story every inch of the way. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z The generals and ambassadors leading the American war effort in Vietnam stand flinty and frigid. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Butler is flinty as the demanding Marjorie, whose mind is faltering and who’s always a bit at odds with her middle-aged daughter, Tess. Robots give uneasy comfort in the sly sci-fi play ‘Marjorie Prime’ at Olney 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Diaz, a vastly underrated actress, has a natural affinity for the complexity of Fiona and gives her character both a warm maternal spark and a flinty protective shell. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z This makes the state a kind of metonym for New England at large: old, overwhelmingly white, conservative in character if not in politics, skeptical, flinty, salty or whatever other mildly condescending euphemism you prefer. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Her advice to those younger performers was flinty and direct. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The plot of “Happening” is driven not by Anne’s harrowing victimization but by her flinty resolve. When an Abortion Story Is Told as a Caper, Thriller or Farce 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s immediately clear what kind of flinty, progressive woman lives in the converted farmhouse depicted onstage in “Swing State,” the play by Rebecca Gilman that opened on Sunday at the Minetta Lane Theater. ‘Swing State’ Review: All Is Not Well in Wisconsin 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Although the flinty Joan is a wonderfully realized character, a number of supporting roles are thinly drawn types rather than three-dimensional figures. 'Delicious' delivers a tart tale of a dying salty matriarch 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Timothy Olyphant hasn't always found the best vehicles for his flinty charisma. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z He later brought flinty cool to “The Old Country,” a lonesome tune associated with Nancy Wilson, and teased out the remorse in Jon Hendricks’s lyrics to “Ask Me Now,” by Thelonious Monk. Review: Ed Reed Pours Out His Feelings at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Only the flintiest churl would look at this and find nothing to rejoice in. TV review: The Hour; Angry Boys 2011-08-02T22:10:01Z Here’s hoping Tursten brings back the flinty homicidal octogenarian for more adventures. Three New Chilling Page-Turners Feature Unlikely Psychopaths 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But the character’s flinty armor and the sensitivity it is constructed to shield are finely etched. | 'Graceland': Grieving as an Odd Family Affair, From LCT3 2010-05-18T04:59:00Z That condemnation runs like a pulsating current through “Lost Girls,” which centers on Mari Gilbert, a flinty heartbreaker played by Amy Ryan. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z On “Airplane” he dabbled in some flinty country filigree; on “Diner,” another band staple, he smartly shifted from bulletlike to bleary. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z Its story of two young neighbours falling in love as they chase their respective hoop dreams could simply proceed along perky romcom lines, but Prince-Bythewood gives it flinty humanity and warm, sensual grace. Streaming: great basketball films to watch after The Last Dance 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Waterston’s flinty portrayal apparently wormed its way into Mr. Anderson’s consciousness, prompting him to cast her years later in “Vice.” Katherine Waterston of ‘Inherent Vice’ Shyly Captivates the Fashion World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z "It's my comment on how men, and especially journalists, look on women and write articles about female artists," she says, fixing me with a flinty stare. Lykke Li: 'The slightest remark can get me crazy' 2011-03-06T00:09:32Z Dressed in head-to-toe black with an immaculate blowout and red matte lips, she had the shellac polish of a flinty fashion boss and a chit-chatty way of charm. Up Close: Aliza Licht, Unnamed Twitter Fashion Star, Comes Out on YouTube 2012-02-15T17:12:15Z It also holds a strong if intangible allure as a romanticized emblem of the humble, flinty American worker. When the Heart Belongs to Carhartt 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Encased in their flinty bulk is the fossilized narrative of a rich marine life that perished in the Triassic period over 200 million years ago. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Lil Buck is a technical phenomenon, and a sweetly sunny performer; but — like Ms. Peck, who was at her flintiest on Thursday — he tends to turn his musicality into a series of showy effects. Review: From Balanchine to Jookin, a Sampler of Summer Souvenirs 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z By turns flinty and tender, devotional and irreverent, haunted and enraptured, Cash’s poems — which date back to the 1940s — proved as multifaceted and emotionally far-reaching as the man himself. Johnny Cash’s Poems Get a Second Life as Songs 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Marling's set is crisp and flinty, confident in the face of an obstreperous audience that chatters incessantly, despite her polite pleas for quiet. Mumford & Sons and friends 2010-07-12T21:15:00Z She notices the flinty gray of the sky, marking it with precision. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A stop at Vinorama Wine Museum was an excellent way to sample flinty Swiss whites. Footsteps: Following Dickens Through Switzerland 2012-07-06T16:19:17Z Having grown up in Salem, she understands the flinty personalities of New England, that baffling tension between self-reliance and community spirit. A thriller with heart: Hannah Tinti’s ‘The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Lemaire’s heroine is flinty and strong, more Katharine Hepburn than Katy Perry, and he doesn’t hesitate to bundle her in layers of yak wool, felt, alpaca and gabardine. On a Youth Kick 2014-02-28T01:05:47Z Until its characters behave illogically in the third act and the direction shows suspense fatigue, "Preservation" displays a flinty resolve to be better than your average woodsy-nightmare thriller. Hunters become the hunted in uneven thriller 'Preservation' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Dry and flinty; rich and tangy; sweet and complex; which is it going to be? Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z I was delighted to discover that in person Trebek was just as I imagined him to be: charming, slightly flinty, somehow both friendly and utterly inaccessible at the same time. Go ask Alex: How I learned Alex Trebek really does have the answers 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z The book becomes an intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind, and it is streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and — despite Isherwood’s fundamental discretion — plenty of frank talk. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z The town is where Alistair MacLeod, Nova Scotia’s greatest writer, grew up, and from his spare, flinty short stories, you get a sense of how hardscrabble and demanding life there used to be. In Cape Breton, a Rugged Golf Getaway 2013-06-07T18:43:43Z Performing in the crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, this fearless young pianist tore into long, flinty, pummeling works by Frederic Rzewski inspired by American protest songs. Bach Breathing Free: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z It was also obstinate, flinty, sometimes raunchy and laced with noise. | Caetano Veloso: Caetano Veloso Revives His Rock at Terminal 5 2010-04-09T22:46:00Z Like actresses who play the flinty heroines of Samuel Beckett’s late plays, Riva must convey Anne’s personality through severely limited means: the slouch or starch in her body, the clarity or opacity in her eyes. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z Bass and drums struck up a crosscurrent, clattering and oblique, as Mr. Abbasi introduced a flinty melody, darting through the stir. Music Review: Intuitions Unsaid but Issued in Rhythms 2011-08-12T21:38:22Z She doesn’t see herself as quite so flinty. Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Wagoner was flinty and domineering, underpaying Parton long after her stardom began to eclipse his, and getting huffy when she tried to leave. Review | ‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In all cases, the flinty detail of the portraits gives them the deliberate look of an era when a photograph required more money and time than in the iPhone age. Photo exhibition at John Wayne Airport needed an old-school touch 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z But maybe Americans are not as flinty a race as we appear to be when we’re chanting at rallies. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z I'm adding Javier Marías's monumental Your Face Tomorrow, and a book which is in many ways its exact opposite, Maria Barbal's flinty fragment, Stone in a Landslide. World literature tour: Spain 2011-03-28T13:55:19Z But despite the performances — Jonathan Goad makes a flinty Atticus and the child actors are, thankfully, not overpolished — the production never realizes the power of the novel. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Strauss wrote the role for Pauline de Ahna, who became his wife shortly after “Guntram’s” 1894 premiere, and who remained his muse, despite her flinty personality, for the rest of his life. Washington Concert Opera exhumes Strauss rarity — once 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Mirroring her view of Africa’s public and private side, Ms. Chipaumire’s flinty, faintly masculine presence seems to be about what you think you see versus what is really there. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire?s ?Gukurahundi? Recalls Zimbabwe?s Past 2010-05-23T21:41:00Z Tuesday’s first set, which was broadcast and archived by WBGO, 88.3 FM, felt at times like an offhanded retrospective, with retooled standards brushing up against flinty originals of recent vintage. Music Review: Greg Osby at the Vanguard, Without Nostalgia 2010-08-04T22:41:00Z His version is more localized, almost always set in the Idaho of his upbringing, where the flinty pride of the locals proves no match for the economic and personal disasters of deindustrialization. Review: In ‘Greater Clements,’ the Tragedy of a Town that Closed 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z An American of Chinese immigrant heritage, Mr. Tao performed flinty works by Copland and the American maverick Frederic Rzewski, whose leftist convictions permeate his music. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Has Mr. Eastwood, famously flinty and cold-eyed, at long last gone squishy? Film: Eastwood Breaks Another Mold 2010-10-14T15:50:00Z Ms. Stemme was stunning, singing with winsome beauty one moment, and flinty power the next. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The Oscar-winning actor stars as the title character in this flinty character study about a garbage man who is seeking redemption and salvation. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z There are similar dreamscapes, abandoned houses, echoes of an extinguished human presence reclaimed by nature, and a similarly flinty beauty to the imagery. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z “I like lean, fresh, vibrant, acid-driven chardonnays that are flinty, lemony and savory,” she said. Theresa Heredia is fine-tuning the wines in Russian River Valley What at first may appear to be a typical flinty surface turns out to be texturally dramatic, with dings and dents and cascades of pointillist dots. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z There are certainly positive aspects to the maverick label, which suggests a composer of flinty individuality unbound by protocols and conventions. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z On the sliver that remains, Alice, a flinty woman in her 70s, scrapes by selling dusty novelty fireworks from a roadside table draped in ratty flag bunting. Review: In ‘Lewiston/Clarkston,’ America at a Crossroads (Plus Dinner) 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But inside her is a flinty refusal to surrender her identity. Translating a Book Caught Between Two Languages 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Hall has a square chin, broad Cro-Magnon brow and flinty green eyes. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z West’s flinty new western, “In a Valley of Violence,” is a modest, satisfying revenge flick. Best empty theaters: the 10 best films without an audience in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z But the title of this collection of 14 short stories hints at the general disposition of the tales — flinty, truculent, sardonic. 'Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain': down, out and confronting death 2012-06-06T21:18:09Z “Things Have Changed” is the title track for a full album of Bob Dylan songs by the flinty, authoritative, longtime soul singer Bettye LaVette; it’s due on March 30. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z But mostly we see a flinty, canny survivor whose pain is illuminated only so far. | 'One Night With Fanny Brice': A Funny Girl Strives to Survive 2011-04-13T22:51:50Z Throughout the EP, Harris-White's flinty voice carves controlled melodies, Irons' nimble raps are alternatingly abstract and blunt, and the pair harmonize seamlessly. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z Mr. Cardenas has a flinty touch on electric guitar, and he doesn’t mess around much with effects, favoring a consistent light-brackish tone. Music Review: At Jazz Standard, Steve Cardenas?s Flinty Spine 2010-06-02T21:55:00Z Evans, however, achieves something we don't often see in many modern detectives, in that both creates and resolves the mystery of how Thaw's flinty, hard-drinking, arrogant-yet-lovable detective came to be. As "Endeavour" approaches the end of its run, more of us should appreciate its mystery 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The book is sober history, a flinty chunk of Americana. Books of The Times: ‘Mathew Brady,’ a Biography by Robert Wilson 2013-08-07T21:29:29Z The show’s flinty emotional edge is well served by Scheuer’s direct style. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Kathleen is the flinty leader of a resistance movement, tough as tungsten nails. The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It showed no flinty aroma, for one thing, but it also seemed a little more distinctive, not as tightly coiled though certainly both lively and savory. Oregon Chardonnay Escapes the Buttery Clichés 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z If his flinty essay here is any indication of what those novels are like, I need to pack one for the lake this summer. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z This slightly flinty statement has softened over time into a kind of mantra for dealing with both the attention and the questions about whether she deserves it. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Kevin Bacon turns in a muscular performance as Sheriff Kretzer, who loses the title vehicle in the flinty drama “Cop Car.” “That’s a message we men get in our society — that’s what heroes do”: Kevin Bacon on the thrills of risk and danger 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z All eight women, at one point, set themselves against Adams' Charlene in a potential front-porch fistfight, and it's a credit to Adams' flinty, chin-lifted-high portrayal that you think she stands a chance. 'The Fighter': Two parts punchy drama, one part formulaic sports movie 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z A lot depends on the performances, and Oliver Ford Davies marvellously shows Tom's transformation from a flinty old beggar, hoarding his words like gold sovereigns, into a figure of loving kindness. Goodnight Mister Tom – review 2012-11-28T16:10:21Z Then came a startlingly flinty riff, set at a mean saunter: Mr. Frisell’s bracketing framework for the Blind Willie Johnson tune “It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine.” Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z Still, the tentative promise of the opener faded quickly alongside the flinty precision of the headliner. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z She has a real talent behind the camera, as she illustrated with the drama "Galveston," a flinty noir, and "Breathe," about two moody French classmates. "I was really shocked": Mélanie Laurent on "Mad Women's Ball" and how "problem" women are controlled 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z And thus, in a display of robustness that one does not typically associate with this most genial of actors, Mahoney shows us a proud, flinty man for whom the loss of lucidity is entirely intolerable. 'Outgoing Tide' a touching look at end-of-life woes -- 3 1/2 stars 2011-05-23T21:19:02Z The actor, as many moviegoers know so well, is an expert in conveying warmth and malice in the same flinty smile. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The soils there are often clay and tuffeau, a form of limestone, as well as flinty silex. For Savennières, Age Comes With Benefits 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z That is no small achievement; and the reason why, on his 80th birthday, we should remember this fearless, flinty, obdurate Afrikaner. Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z Her starring role, as the unnamed “mother,” an earthy wife who doesn’t even leave the house, was a departure from the flinty, adventurous heroines that she is known for. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Ribot sat hunched over his guitar throughout this reeling excursion, his output flinty and furious. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Conrad Tao’s “American Rage” is a timely collection of flinty contemporary American pieces. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Tasked with that particular duty is the station’s secretary of defense, played by Jodie Foster with a peculiar, unplaceable accent, a flinty glare and very severe tailoring. ‘Elysium’: A future where Earth has little to offer 2013-08-08T19:33:33Z I especially like the bristling performance of the raw and riveting Orchestral Variations, Copland’s arrangement of his flinty Piano Variations. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z A pair of elegant black pumps with rosy interiors and deliberately bumpy surfaces are a flinty joke about gender roles, sex and mortality. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Loach is a proud and passionate old-school British leftist, but the recent films he has done with Mr. Laverty display a gratifyingly flinty conservatism, both aesthetic and cultural. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z But as a committed avant-gardist — as rooted in the flintier subcultures of jazz as he is in noise and doom metal — he also understands the purpose of a conceptual frame. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z Her voice flinty and good at conveying vulnerability, she pointed the text with transparency and purpose in four lovely Bizet songs, though there is room for more attitude and passion in “Open Your Heart.” Music Review: Brian Mulligan and Lisette Oropesa at the Morgan Library 2012-04-02T22:10:13Z It’s both flinty and warm, nostalgic and effortlessly contemporary. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She sings standards, show tunes and old novelties in a taut, flinty, elusively beautiful voice, erring toward material with difficult lyrics and tough places in history. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Even newcomer Kali Reis delivered a knockout with her flinty work in "Catch the Fair One." The worst film performances of 2022 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Rzewski, who at 78 is flinty and opinionated yet warm, is one of many great American composers whom a vast majority of America has never heard, or even heard of. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Like Clockwork” hones the way Queens of the Stone Age draw on the 1960s and 1970s with a flinty, contemporary sense of strategy. New Music: Queens of the Stone Age and Mellencamp’s ‘Ghost Brothers’ 2013-06-03T22:05:09Z While generally liberal, she hewed to a flinty pragmatism even when that grew increasingly out of fashion in her party as it moved to the left. Dianne Feinstein, the first woman in the Senate from California, has died 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The first single from the album “The Wolf Is Getting Married,” “How about” finds her playing flinty, guitar-driven rock for the first time since the early 1990s. 10 essential Sinéad O'Connor songs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z “Mother of God,” says Maggie Smith flintily, when her character is confronted with something of which she disapproves — which is most things — in Irish director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s blandly buttery “The Miracle Club.” Review: 'The Miracle Club' gathers a powerhouse cast to feast on a thick slice of Irish ham 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Jack Smith, appointed in November to investigate former President Donald J. Trump, is a hard-driving, flinty former prosecutor chosen for his experience in bringing high-stakes cases against politicians in the United States and abroad. Who Is Jack Smith, the Special Counsel Who Indicted Trump? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z It would take the flintiest heart not to feel for Jofra Archer. 'Archer's latest injury is the cruellest of blows' 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z As much as any wine I’ve ever tasted, the wines of Chablis express the soil in which they are grown, a flinty minerality backed by purity of fruit and bracing acidity. There’s nothing quite like an authentic French Chablis, a true original 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z With Hawkins’s alternately elfin and flinty performance at its center, “The Lost King” winds up being a paean to amateurism and unconventionality. Review | ‘The Lost King’: True story of the search for the grave of Richard III 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Readers looking for the cutting and flinty Malcolm of earlier books will not find her here. How Janet Malcolm, at death's door, finally took on her toughest subject — herself 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Over a three-hour coffee of life experiences, and a subsequent casting test, Chou saw his fierce, flinty character. 'Return to Seoul's' behind the scenes tale of the reluctant movie star 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s missing that bright, lemon-lime Sprite flavor, and instead of the earthy, flinty notes, it’s more apple sour on the finish. Here are the best Costco wine bargains for the 2022 holiday season 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z That sums up Chablis: flinty minerality, bright fruit, crisp acidity and incredible complexity. There’s nothing quite like an authentic French Chablis, a true original 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Mainers like to say theirs is a flinty spirit, born of enduring harsh winters and an equally harsh economy. Ukrainian Flags Are on Display All Over Maine. Why? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Or consider New Hampshire, whose flinty voters pride themselves on being less partisan than the average bear. What We Know Now About the Midterms 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star system, her singing sliced through polished arrangements like a sharpened blade. In Loretta Lynn's voice, the unflinching truth about love, motherhood and women's lives 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Thatcher, by the time she became Prime Minister in 1979, had become known for a flinty disdain of what she referred to as “women’s lib.” Queen Elizabeth, and the Power and Limitations of Inspiring Women 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z There is lots to admire about Elgar, a flinty, gritty opener, the kind that England have been crying out for during the past decade. Fearless England set for South Africa challenge 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z His chief antagonist and wielder of the elitism cudgel was Sen. Claiborne Pell, a flinty and influential Rhode Island Democrat fond of saying “I always let the other fellow have my way.” Ronald Berman, humanities endowment chairman, dies at 91 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes too much crunch: The versions I first encountered were flinty and left me with a mouthful of dust. Biscotti So Good They Made Me Cry 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Fiction | Everything about Anne Tyler’s 24th novel is immediately recognizable to her fans: the kind but flinty Baltimore family, the quirky occupations, the special foods. 21 books to read this summer The Garretts are a classic Tyler tribe: responsible, middle-class, kind but flinty. Review | Anne Tyler’s ‘French Braid’ is entirely familiar, and that’s just perfect 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z And, yes, some are “flinty and self-reliant,” rather like Henry David Thoreau. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This photo of Biden seemed to continue a false narrative 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z I just watched the kite sign its taunting purple signature in the flinty blue sky. Column: How I lost my kite and learned the futility of holding on to things 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z After the positive critical reception to Hall’s 2018 flinty comedy “Support the Girls,” the landscape of offers has broadened for her in TV as well as the big screen. Why Regina Hall's 'Nine Perfect Strangers' role filled her with excitement 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Her flinty naturalism took on a paradoxical radiance. Review: Kristen Stewart's 'Spencer' continues the Diana-ssance. But don't call it a biopic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z It would be one of the longest criminal trials in California history, with the flinty veteran of so many courtroom wars on trial for his life. The murder of a small-town thief. Claims of a vast conspiracy. 'The Trials of Frank Carson' 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury. Review: 'The Killing of Two Lovers' is a powerful drama about a family on the brink 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Her personality was flinty and rough, and as leathery as her skin. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z That new president was Calvin Coolidge, former governor of Massachusetts, a man who put the flint in flinty New Englander. Opinion | History shows there’s no right way to swear in a president. Just get it done. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Light, flinty tones mingle with ripe pear and lemon zest on the nose. These are the best bargain wines from Costco 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Then they join a heist arranged by a flinty femme fatale, and naturally, the job falls apart. Cyberpunk 2077 is huge, ambitious, and safe 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z McDormand may be the most unadorned of movie stars, but her flinty screen presence is as forceful and recognizable as that of any actor working today. Review: Frances McDormand is at her finest in 'Nomadland,' a sublime ode to American wanderlust 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z She’s more used to communicating nonverbally, with a hard, flinty stare or an uncomfortable pause, and every one of her silences becomes freighted with meaning in Winslet’s extraordinary performance. Review: Kate Winslet gives her best performance in years in the striking, passionate 'Ammonite' 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Together, they had a flinty Nick-and-Nora charm — two smart, charming people whose mutual attraction was something they needed to hide. How J.K. Rowling’s ‘Troubled Blood’ made me not care about 2 characters I’d loved 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z As James Brown in Get on Up, his gaze shifted seamlessly from faintly amused twinkle to a flinty stare. Chadwick Boseman’s genius was to embody black pride, in all its forms | Elvis Mitchell 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z No wonder Kite was one of flinty Ben Hogan’s favorite players. Perspective | At the U.S. Open, you can see the real drama: Between the golfers’ ears 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “The King of Staten Island,” for its part, becomes a better one whenever Burr is on screen, especially when he’s with Tomei, whose flinty warmth has rarely been more winning. Review: Pete Davidson bares his soul in 'The King of Staten Island,' but his co-stars truly rule 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The Dutch are hardly alone in keeping a flinty eye on EU spending. How Covid-19 poured cold water on Netherlands' EU romance 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The conclusion, likewise, seems more invested in making dramatic points than being the nervy climax we’ve expected from so fraught a collision of flinty yet under-the-gun women. Review: ‘Blow the Man Down’ offers a gritty snap of modern noir with a feminist bent 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Loach and Laverty insist we notice these 21st century vassals, through a combination of flinty charm and often wrenching drama. Review: Ken Loach delivers a searing critique of U.K. gig economy in ‘Sorry We Missed You’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “I don’t think there’s an answer to that,” he said, his tone suddenly turning flinty. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The section’s editor, Seymour Peck, a flinty New Yorker, had me write columns on movies, theatre, rock music, and television as well as on art, extending my capacities, while cracking down on my flakiness. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Trump may be unstoppable, but he is more likely to suffer a serious setback among the flinty voters of the Granite State than among the quivering mass of Republican weaklings in Washington. Opinion | There’s at least one Republican who’s not afraid to stand up to Trump 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z While working with Tudor, fellow ABT dancer Donald Saddler remembered Ms. Alonso’s flinty attitude when the choreographer, notorious for berating his dancers, approached her. Alicia Alonso, indomitable ballet star who founded National Ballet of Cuba, dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Not all are feeling the prosperity in New Hampshire, and when the tumult of his presidency is thrown in, the state’s flinty voters may not be receptive to his appeals. 10 Things to Know for Today 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Some weeks it seemed like the sole flinty standout in a paper full of trophy hoisters and plaque clutchers, fishing advice and garden tips. Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But Cordae is also flinty about being pegged as the new embodiment of Woke Rap. Meet YBN Cordae, hip-hop’s next great MC 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Photographs from the era of soldiers waiting their nervous turn with clenched jaws and flinty eyes seem to offer a definition of valor itself. Heroes of a More Certain Time 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z And my grandmother on my mother’s side was a wonderful, kind of flinty New Englander who was– Transcript: Lisa Monaco 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “These donor types are pretty flinty eyed, but they want to be passionate about their choices.” Pete Buttigieg, the young and openly gay Midwest mayor, finds a voice in crowded Democratic presidential field 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Each alligator took 42 dives—21 before and 21 after their flinty meal. Alligators gobble rocks to stay underwater longer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z So, if my not-bad idea is adopted, the first-in-the-nation primary would be shared by two states: New Hampshire — flinty, self-centered, money-grubbing and tricky — and Vermont — liberal, generous, easygoing and respectful of others. Opinion | As a Vermonter, I know: New Hampshire doesn’t deserve the first primary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z The first minister to resign was Mrs. May’s Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, a cold-eyed man in a hurry, a flintily ambitious Thatcherite. Opinion | The Men Who Want to Push Britain Off a Cliff 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who offers flinty insights into the latest machinations of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z His hair is a flinty silver, closely cropped. Viggo Mortensen, the Unlikely Leading Man 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The usher finally catches a glimpse of the flinty eyes beneath the ballplayer’s cap. Lenny Dykstra Has More to Say 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z What’s left doesn’t give Chastain a whole lot to play aside from good manners, sharp comebacks and the kind of flinty resilience that has become the actress’ stock-in-trade. Jessica Chastain plays the artist who painted Sitting Bull in the inert history lesson 'Woman Walks Ahead' Sometimes, as in parody, it is coupled with the flinty disposition of the critic. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z Sentiment, though, is scarce, befitting the flinty style of Mr. Hersh, who has a knack for cycling through employers and exhausting his editors. I, Sy: Seymour Hersh’s Memoir of a Life Making the Mighty Sweat 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Her flinty American prickliness finds both a loving embrace and a gentle foil in Claflin’s soft eyes and mellow, British-accented charm. Shailene Woodley's performance powers the evasive shipwreck-survival drama 'Adrift' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Still only 48, he was the future of the Republican Party once: a champion of a flinty yet compassionate conservatism admired by both rank-and-file members of Congress and deep-pocketed donors. Paul Ryan’s retirement suggests his brand of conservatism has lost 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z What that means, though, is that Musgraves would've been less likely to stand out with another record that allowed listeners to view her as a flinty apostate. There's radical optimism in Kacey Musgraves' blissed-out 'Golden Hour' 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z When he exposes the cause of his shame, a body covered in Kaposi's sarcoma lesions, this flinty woman reveals a wise heart: "It's a cancer. Nothing more. Nothing more human than that." 'Angels in America,' the right play for our fractious times 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z When I reviewed the play at San Diego’s Old Globe in 2011, I enjoyed the spirited debate, heated emotion and occasional flinty spark of desire. The 99-Seat Beat: Celebrate Women's History Month with L.A.'s theaters 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Initially one of just 29 women in the House of Representatives, Rep. Slaughter was a flinty advocate of women’s access to health care and abortion. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, N.Y. Democrat who championed women’s rights, dies at 88 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z If their performances seem chaotic or over-the-top, these two nevertheless keep them grounded in a flinty plausibility that prevents the drama from veering into farce. Review | ‘The Party’: A dinner party from hell is heaven for people who love politics and dark humor 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Words like “steely,” “flinty” and “minerally” typically describe Chablis;... Why Chablis Is Our Wine Columnist’s Go-To White 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The wine list is less funky than some others, with familiar styles and regions, but even so, it’s embracing the natural movement: That flinty cabernet franc from the Loire? Wine bars are popping up all over D.C. — and they’re refreshingly unpretentious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Thanks mainly to Big Ten stodginess and flinty Midwesternism and the like, Michigan and Michigan State have somehow never once played a night kickoff in the 110-year history of the rivalry. College football TV schedule: West Virginia, TCU will run and run often 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z She was flinty in a way that the willfully imperceptive could easily mistake for chipper. Should Women Make Their Own Pop Music Canon? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z There’s Motown soul, flinty Memphis blues and svelte 1980s balladry etched into these songs. null 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Clinton’s flinty father always told her that he’d love her unconditionally. Analysis | The Daily 202: The reading list that helped Hillary Clinton cope 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z It certainly is with the Trump administration, which bristles with chest-thumping anti-cosmopolitans who are too flinty to be bamboozled by foreigners such as Ricardo and others who deny that trade is a zero-sum game. Opinion | Trump is a novice protectionist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The coastal communities are threatened by a confluence of conditions that are making life difficult even for the flinty residents, who are used to dealing with an inhospitable, remote environment. Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z That’s the past, though; today, many of the descendants of those flinty Protestants now preach the prosperity gospel, which explicitly links material success in this life to God’s grace. Does Spirituality Make You Happy? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Even Philip Hammond, the flinty fiscal disciplinarian at the Treasury, agrees that voters are weary of “the long slog”. That jeering sound you can hear is Europe laughing at Britain | Andrew Rawnsley 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z With an echo of Sam Cooke, the title track is the record’s catchiest moment, with a driving beat, a flinty guitar and a murmured assurance that “One day, a change is gonna come.” In a turbulent political climate, Algiers channels outrage into hope 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Today, the adjectives Wright conjures are earthy: flinty, stony, rocky. Why I love… Robin Wright 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The chemistry between Winger and Letts, the flinty sparks that fly between them, gives “The Lovers” much of its energy. Debra Winger and Tracy Letts on their chemistry in 'The Lovers' and, reluctantly, on Hollywood and women 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z A flinty Irish American, he entered the agency 37 years ago hoping to be an ops officer but moved to analysis. Opinion | Will John Brennan’s controversial CIA modernization survive Trump? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z A hint of this was in the curt and flinty comments by various MEPs after David Davis had gone. Steering Britain out of the EU - BBC News 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z He doesn’t suffer nonsense and he’s very blunt and flinty. When Joni Mitchell lived in a cave, Mick got lonely and R.E.M. recorded ‘Religion': 45 tales of jukebox genius 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z That’s like being made to feel for the poor suckers who are forced to disregard agreements and evict tenants for a flinty landlord. How Native Americans battled a brutal land grab by an expanding America 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z And so voters should take heed of Brown’s flinty stand on Proposition 51, the $9 billion bond to build and repair public schools, with $2 billion of the total earmarked for community colleges. California Editorial Roundup 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Framed by handclaps and disco strings, “Day to Day” is modern cowbell-funk, and with its heartsick vocals and whistled melody, the flinty “Written in Stone” wouldn’t sound out of place on a better Coldplay record. The Robert Glasper Experiment's 'ArtScience' stretches the borders of R&B fusion 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z She is beautiful, in a taut, flinty way, and carries herself like a queen. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Even for a flinty curmudgeon, the risk of self-amplification, pumped up by screaming, adoring fans, seems to be strong. Explaining Hillary Clinton’s Lost Ground in the Polls 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Her favorite Old Master, she told me, dating to her days in Rome, is Andrea Mantegna—the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini, who is as astringently flinty as Bellini is meltingly honeyed. Art’s One-Woman Insurgency 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A few flinty families like Nick's stayed through the generations and made ranching the Owyhee's main industry. A new threat to the American cowboy? - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Sometimes known as the Baroness, she was flinty and imperious and did not gladly suffer fools, a category that included most of the people who worked at Knopf. Mrs. Knopf, Invisible Tastemaker 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Holly Hunter brings flinty brio to her role as a U.S. senator skeptical of Superman’s motives. ‘Batman v Superman’ is so desperate to be taken seriously, it forgets to have fun 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The elder Pederson was flinty, with a solid handshake, but it was evident that his memory had suffered significant loss. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z And not just in flinty New England, he insists. Why not Kasich! Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and my week on the trail with the GOP 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine him surviving that, but he’s a flinty right-winger who might be able to pull it off. The GOP’s 3-way race from hell: Everything you need to know about last night’s Iowa caucuses 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z In a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, he cast himself as a flinty defender of the police. Chris Christie’s Momentum Tested as Opponents Attack 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Among Republicans, there is a flinty sense of pride that New Hampshire does not ratify Iowa’s picks. Why It's Risky To Think of Cruz Winning First Three States 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z For Bush, it’s a bet that New Hampshire’s flinty voters will side with serious over circus within the next month. Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Cynthia Nixon, as Gail, goes from flinty to manipulative to protective in dizzyingly short order. ‘James White’ is a deep dive into the mother-son relationship at its most fraught 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z When Moores proved short of international nous and clout, he was replaced by flinty Zimbabwean Andy Flower, former number one-ranked batsman in the world. Eddie Jones - the right man for England or just someone different? 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z That view is echoed by Mr Scott, the first black Republican to be elected to Congress from South Carolina since 1897, who combines a flintily conservative record with a gentle, genial manner. The Firewall State 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes called the Iceman, often described as flinty or steely, he responded to victory with a set jaw and a determined glare. Pat Eddery, 63, Prolific and Steely Jockey 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z This desecration of nature extends to the miners themselves — typically gaunt from inadequate food, bent double from years of hacking through the flinty earth and all too frequently ravaged by drugs. See the True Cost of Burmese Jade 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But for the residents of these flinty towns, the point is turnout. Tiny New Hampshire communities guard midnight voting tradition 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The lovely, thickly forested north of the state is the ancestral home of the Yankee Republicans—a flinty, taciturn bunch with little time for either government meddling or fire-and-brimstone social conservatives. Democrats in them thar hills 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z And why James Madison, whose flinty realism is often called pessimism, was too optimistic. America’s barnacled budget 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z At the onset of the series, Dickens' Madison is a more cynical, flinty contrast to Travis, an optimist. Will a 'Walking Dead' prequel breathe new life into AMC? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z To be fair, RedState gatherings attract a particularly flinty sort of conservative. Anger management 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Kasich is expected to stake his campaign on a strong showing in New Hampshire, whose flinty voters often favor iconoclastic conservatives of his ilk. John Kasich Enters Presidential Race As Compassionate Republican 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z His flinty temperament engaged, he decided to take unilateral actions and fought the Tea Party, the Kochs and his own political allies all the way to the state Supreme Court and won. Welcome to the “freak flag” era of Republican politics: This new GOP candidate even more ridiculous than Donald Trump 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Seen through another lens, “Jimmy’s Hall” is actually quite timely, its brief and shining moment of flinty self-reliance resembling the modern-day DIY movement, decades before DIY became chic. In ‘Jimmy’s Hall,’ the pursuit of happiness is truly revolutionary 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr Bush explicitly appealed to voters beyond the flinty core of conservative activists who dominate the primary contests that will choose his party’s presidential candidate next year. Time past and time future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Now that Letterman’s a flinty codger, an establishment figure, it’s become difficult to recall just how revolutionary his style of meta-comedy once felt. David Letterman, Revolutionary 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z As their parents, Mr. Hall — a quintessentially flinty Irish father — and Ms. Pellegrino have some of the play’s best material, trading blunt and meaningful meditations on parenting and mortality. Review of ‘Outside Mullingar’ in Armonk 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The normally rather flinty leader emits a sound that is almost a giggle: “Don’t tempt me.” Calling the tune 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Paul heads to New Hampshire on Wednesday and will address what he calls the “leave me alone” coalition in the flinty, libertarian-leaning state. Rand Paul launches 2016 bid as a fresh-faced disrupter in the field 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z But, such advances run up against a flinty pride in national identity. ‘A Hardliner’s Nightmare’: Religious Tolerance in Europe’s Only Majority-Muslim Country 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Many Greeks see the caustic Mr. Schäuble, 72, as the flinty embodiment of a German austerity policy they blame for destroying their country. Language of Greek Crisis Shifts From Financial Jargon to Humiliation 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Guadalupe is a reserved woman whose nature is reflected through Ms. Santiago’s quiet, at times even flinty, portrayal. A Review of ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’ in Red Bank 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Yes, it is only two rounds and one tournament so far this year, but this flinty quality is the one he needs most while seeking the spark to reverse what is an alarming current decline. How can Woods halt alarming decline? 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z And there are the characters: flinty, funny, nobody’s victim. How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Fans from outside New England might envision Foxborough as a quaint village of greens, flinty shop owners and assorted Ye Olde tropes. Tom Brady Cannot Stop 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Page, who is sixty-three, has the crouched, sinewy build and the flinty manner of an old deputy sheriff in a Western. The Ride of Their Lives 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Christine Dart, a former school governor and the editor of the village magazine, The Crofton Beacon, has a quiet, flinty determination. The Local Heroes Reopening a Coal Mine With a Revolutionary New Business Model But flintier conservatives instead want the states to decide how to tax fuel and pay for roads, cutting out the federal government entirely. If the Republicans win the Senate... 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Friends have beseeched him to savour the experience he is having in Spain, but the flinty Scot is too absorbed in assisting Santo to let the reality of his situation faze him. Meet the 28-year-old Scot in La Liga 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Early in his playing career, which saw him win eight major championships, his boyish gait and flinty eye earned him the nickname Huckleberry Dillinger. Management Lessons from a Ryder Cup Feud 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Dry, crisp, flinty, from a single vineyard on a steep slope. Why Hillside Wines Are Better - Alto Adige And Elena Walch 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, even the best swordfighters earn large bruises in the ring, which they display with flinty pride. For Longsword, a Comeback Ages in the Making 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z A mountain wine, packet with flinty minerality and redolent of rose petals, lychees & rosemary. Twelve Winning Wines For A Labor Day Party 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z He was the kind of frugal, flinty and socially tolerant Republican who dominated this region. How Liberal is Martha’s Vineyard? The Answer May Surprise You Hope does not thrive in this flinty soil. In a City Mired in Losing, James’s Return Offers a Glimmer of Hope 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z This is the case for the flinty old folks that rule the politics of America. Why Google Could Hold The Keys To The White House 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet this record was not flinty enough to ward off a primary challenge. Tea time in Texas 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “I live a permanent battle,” she said with a flinty stare. A Desperate Mother’s Search Leads to a Fight Against Sex Trafficking 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z American cinema is full of films that emphasized the heroism of the maternal impulse — flinty, passionate and self-sacrificing — as indicated in the five pictures we’ve chosen, from 1940 to the current decade. The Good, the Bad and the Mommy: Five Great Movie Mothers, and the Five Worst 2014-05-11T13:00:31Z Along the way, flinty New Englanders have adopted Henry as one of their own. John Henry and the Making of a Red Sox Baseball Dynasty 2014-04-24T10:00:07Z WALLERS, France — On one side, the rock was as flinty and jagged as a chipped tooth. A Course Where Cyclists Shake, Rattle and Roll 2014-04-10T21:06:31Z Margaret Thatcher’s flinty brand of British conservatism acquired a namesake “ism” all its own. A Moment for the Flames That Went Out in 2013 2013-12-31T02:17:45Z That is not just rhetoric: he faces a primary challenge organised by the Club for Growth, a group that wants a flintier conservative to represent the 18th. Lexington: How the shutdown plays in Peoria 2013-10-10T15:00:39Z They find tragedy instead, and only the flinty optimism of their matriarch, Ma Joad, sustains them. The Good, the Bad and the Mommy: Five Great Movie Mothers, and the Five Worst 2014-05-11T13:00:31Z After all, Ron Paul won second place in the 2012 Republican primary in New Hampshire: a state full of flinty Yankees who detest both taxes and meddling in folks’ private lives. Lexington: Rand Paul’s dream 2013-05-23T15:05:17Z Saracens are fit and flinty and will offer Ulster no time to rediscover their form of early season. Heineken Cup quarter-finals promise tense confrontations to savour 2013-03-30T20:59:01Z Ireland are controlled, efficient even in defensive extremis, organised and flinty. Brains not passion will decide Ireland's Six Nations game with England 2013-02-09T22:00:01Z And there’s the flinty mother who wants maximum firepower to take matters into her own hands in protecting her brood. Both sides of gun control issue turn to women as spokespeople and symbols 2013-02-04T18:01:36Z Armstrong's flinty demeanour cracked when he recounted how his 13-year-old son Luke had defended him against the taunts of other children. Lance Armstrong 'sick' and tearful in second Oprah Winfrey interview 2013-01-19T04:56:00Z But Mr Cole, a flinty conservative in other respects, says that his first loyalty is to constituents from his far-from-wealthy district, who would suffer if America fell off a year-end fiscal cliff. Lexington: Mitt Romney’s legacy 2012-12-06T16:03:43Z Embattled first-termers have flaunted endorsements from popular conservative politicians and pointed to impeccably flinty voting records, as graded by right-wing lobby groups. The Arizona sixth-district race: When insurgents are incumbents 2012-08-09T15:01:02Z Anthony, flinty and thin, shared his story on the condition that his last name be withheld. Crime Scene: Robbed in Queens by Men With a Weapon at the End of a Leash 2012-07-21T04:13:32Z This is a hard, flinty old links, a place where you will be sternly punished for wayward approach shots: "A beast of a course," Bernard Darwin wrote, "but a just beast." British Open: Searching For Seve 2012-07-16T04:00:00Z Even cushions are being provided to ensure that the assembled dignitaries are protected against the Greco-Roman theatre's famously flinty steps. Cyprus takes over EU presidency amid doubts whether it can navigate crisis 2012-07-04T18:36:41Z It is not just a matter of ability but flinty attitude. Five lessons for the northern hemisphere Test sides 2012-06-17T19:33:44Z To stormy rage she bids controul, And sinks serenely on the soul; Softens DUCALION’S flinty race, And tunes the warring world to peace. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z But greed so excessive, even in its own eyes, must find some cloak to cover it; and one of the most common and most congenial to flinty hearts is—the unworthiness of the applicant. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Now, the treatment which such an individual ought to receive is expressed in the text, and such treatment would soften the flinty path of his return to virtue, and facilitate his progress. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Her husband, flinty of face, occupied a separate throne set a little behind her. Letter From Europe: Her Majesty's Royal Reconnection 2012-03-26T12:50:06Z Hurrah! off again, dashing on as in ire, Till the long, flinty pathway is flashing with fire! In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z When we climbed down the precipitous hill that led to the bridge, our shoes were cut to pieces by the flinty stones. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The varying power of resistance may be compared to that of the green stalk of the pea and the dry flinty seed. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z They are always before you; you see the path stained by their bleeding feet; stupid and flinty, indeed, must you be, if you can hastily wound, or indolently forbear to aid them. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The pebbles on the beach consist of quartz, red jasper, hornstone, and flinty slate, but do not contain any stone resembling chalk flint. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The floor is of sand, like the mountain's drift, And the pearl shells spangle the flinty snow; From coral rocks the sea plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z She would appeal in person to the siren,--speak words inspired from on high which should touch her flinty heart. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z After remaining in this situation for some time, a noise was heard as the tramp of a body of horse passing over a flinty road — no uncommon occurrence at that period. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z So saying, he took a piece of flinty stone, and struck it hard against another, till they gave red sparks between them. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The city of Astorga, whose cathedral was founded, so the pilgrims used to say, by St. James in his missionary tour, greeted us from the midst of the flinty hills. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z New Hampshire is where conventional wisdom goes to die at the hands of flinty Northeastern sensibility. Mitt Romney: After New Hampshire, the GOP's Once and Future Nominee? 2012-01-11T05:35:40Z The spin from Santorum’s aides is that his views dovetail nicely with New Hampshire’s flinty, fiscally conservative, heavily Catholic electorate. Heated Exchange Exposes Santorum's Hurdles in New Hampshire 2012-01-06T11:15:00Z Next—and for this I breathe my deepest sigh, Ah cruel, flinty, hard, remorseless I!— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z "I wonder what you are to me," I thought as I scanned him closely, his flinty shifting eyes darting everywhere to escape my gaze. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z Above are walnuts and chestnuts, and the flintiest summits serve for pasturage. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Half an hour later they sat beside a snapping fire, eating morsels of salt pork and flinty bannocks out of a frying-pan, with a black pannikin of tea between them. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z This wrapper does not fall off till the joint has hardened and acquired its flinty armour so as to be safe from damage by any animal. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z He could write a page of matter on the different kinds of batter used in making flinty gim-cracks on the modern cooking plan. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z These kernels, of course, became hard and flinty in time, and capable of resisting almost any amount of weathering. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Small economies steadily pursued are the source of thrift and competence to many a cultivator of flinty and ungenial acres; few farmers can afford to disregard them. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Fire from the flinty floor was spurned; The vaults unwonted clang returned!— Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z The cold was intense so that his snowshoes crunched on the surface of the flinty, wind-driven snow. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Of the varieties of Indian corn in America, the yellow flinty corn is reckoned the sweetest and most nutritive; the white corn of the South makes the fairest, but considerably the weakest flour. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z And scattered far apart, down deep blackberried lanes, lie the villages of pink-plastered cottages clustering together, red roof by red roof, with a flinty grey church in the midst. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Nerve our arms,—sharpen our weapons,—and crumble these hard and flinty stones, so that they may yield to our efforts. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Back from the rich bottom lands, on limestone and flinty ridges, where water is scarce, these trees are stunted. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Brent gasped for breath in the first rush of it and the next moment was coughing the flinty dry snow-powder from his lungs. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z That sage of old, Knew he not well, ye mighty tomes of clay, How firm the trust your flinty page might hold? Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z It is the recipient soil, tender and watered by gentle dews, that nurtures the acorn into the oak by an alchemy that the flinty rock knows nothing of. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Let me go, I say, or I will dash out my brains against these flinty walls, and balk you of your prey.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Slowly the other lifted his flinty eyes, fixing a vacuous stare on the Phantom’s face, and pulled hard at his pipe. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Out of the northeast it roared, straight across the frozen gulf from the treeless, snow-buried wastes of Wollaston Land, driving before it flinty particles of snow that hissed earthward in long cutting slants. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs where the tides and billows flow. Asgard Stories Tales from Norse Mythology 2011-09-22T02:00:24.717Z I imagine they all get to be like their own flinty rocks, hard, sharp, and ugly.” The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z The former is mellow and rich—the latter flinty and harsh. Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.337Z Her warm, flinty performance, first among equals in a strong cast, is one of the prime lessons to take away from this intelligent Surgeon General's advisory of a film. Soderbergh's Contagion: Don't Touch Gwyneth Paltrow! 2011-09-04T14:15:00Z They began to look the most snivelling of sins as I watched, with spacious leisure, the near procession of gigantic trees, that superb wild which did not arise from such niggard and flinty maxims. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z So saying, he turned his steed against the mountain, and spurred him up its flinty side. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Perhaps you’re a weathered, flinty master of high winds and heavy rain, so these tips may seem like pre-K for storm survivors. Gadgetwise Blog: Seven Ways to Protect Your Tech From Irene 2011-08-26T17:31:58Z The path became very fatiguing for our cattle, as it was covered with flinty boulders, some of which had very sharp edges, and injured the hoofs. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The fifth place is a hard, smooth, flinty rock, sticking up out of the ground. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z He would irritate us into a disputation; and though he was a choleric man, quick at opposition, yet his vocabulary then was flinty and sparse. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Stanton leaned back in his chair and the lids of the flinty eyes narrowed thoughtfully. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Yet like more than a few newcomers to this flinty city, the Jewish Mark Twain, as he was known, left within a year, humiliated and disillusioned. New Documentary Follows Leading Yiddish Writer?s Life in New York City 2011-07-25T01:54:31Z The excavation of the flinty mass occupied nearly two summers. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z They went on towards the thresher, walking delicately among the flinty stubble, until they reached the edge of the whirling dust. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Innumerable portions of radiated quartz, and sharp fragments of flinty stones are mixed with the clay, and form the first stratum of about fourteen inches. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z At the touch of Dante's staff, the flintiest rock of metaphysical dogma yields the water of life, and in his mouth the subtlest discussion of casuistry becomes a lamp to our feet. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z Mrs. Harper had a flinty sort of nature and you only had to look into those cold eyes of hers to know that it would go hard with anyone who had displeased her. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Oh, for a flinty heart that knows no weakness, But moves right onward, unseduc'd by friendship, And all the weak affections! The Fatal Falsehood 2011-05-31T02:00:36.033Z He smiled a sort of flinty smile at his poor wit, and shuffled aimlessly along through the densest clots of the crowd. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The soil was sterile, hard, and flinty, bearing yellow pines, with some oaks. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z "How can you compare thoroughbred racing to death sports?" a flinty Stevens asked. Injuries lead to wide-open Kentucky Derby field 2011-05-07T20:24:00Z Felsite, or Felstone, a hard, compact igneous rock of somewhat flinty appearance, composed usually of quartz and orthoclase felspar intimately mixed, but sometimes of less highly siliceous minerals. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z It may be noted that Hungarian wheat is hard and flinty and well adapted for treatment by rolls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Red Crag, there lies beneath my furthest toe A vein of Sulphur—go dear Red Crag, go— And rub your flinty back against it—budge! Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The path then became obscure; the ground was so flinty and hard, that it was in vain we searched for tracks of horses' feet. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z We now commenced ascending Finisterre; and, making numerous and long détours, we wound our way up its flinty sides. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The question was thundered out in the sound of the runner's own steps on the flinty places, and echoed by the stones that rolled away from under his feet. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The heat now became almost suffocating; swarms of flies began to make their appearance, and settling down upon the horses, stung them almost to madness, whilst the road was very flinty and trying. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z There was a flinty hardness in her tone which astonished herself perhaps more than Titus Price. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z All the open, elevated tracts, are clothed with herbage, which hides their flinty aspect, and gives the country a picturesque appearance. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Each bridle was laid loose upon the mane, and the wild riders plunged at speed down the flinty ravine, now partially illumined by the flash of matchlocks from the alarmed garrison. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Thou art no son of Venus, nor was Dardanus The ancient founder of thy race, thou faithless one; But Caucasus with rough and flinty crags begot, And fierce Hyrcanian tigers suckled thee. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The sides of the hills were for the most part clothed with luxuriant forests, even to the very summits, though occasionally a flinty and naked peak would present itself, rising to the clouds. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Just outside of Souppes there is a great flinty rock upon which some prehistoric race used to sharpen knives. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Sand, and pulverized flinty gravel, are mixed with the lead-ashes before smelting. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Having got to the flinty, winding path leading to the fort of Kosmac: "Now," said Radonic, "you must positively come no farther." The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z He then lay down on his flinty couch, with Neptune for a pillow; and, being completely exhausted by fatigue, notwithstanding his distress and discontent, sank into a profound sleep. The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. 2011-01-06T03:00:54.123Z A cargo of Bibles, however, which I hoped occasionally p. 262to put on his back, would, I had no doubt, thoroughly tame him, especially when labouring up the flinty hills of the north of Spain. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Brad Haddin, as flinty an Australian as it is possible to meet, dropped to his haunches, undefeated in a personal sense, but also a member of a team that had been overwhelmed. England Retains Ashes 2010-12-29T11:51:19Z As you recede from the banks of the rivers, the land rises, passing, sometimes by almost imperceptible gradations, and sometimes very abruptly, into elevated barrens, flinty ridges, and rocky cliffs. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The hand which falls like a hundred pounds of granite on the flinty eye of his ke-yuntery's foes has the softness of a blessing when it caresses the golden head of plastic childhood. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z As for the message that Brown's flinty 5-point win sent to Democrats across the country, that was summed up by the winner. 2010-01-21T07:25:00Z The men scarcely ever occupy themselves in husbandry, which they abandon to the women, who plough the flinty fields and gather in the scanty harvests. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z There had been times when Sam’s life had hinged on just such trivial things as the snapping of a twig, and now, peering through the thickets Spurrier saw a flinty hardness come into his eyes. The Law of Hemlock Mountain In summer the flinty aspect of the country is veiled by a luxuriant growth of grass, which gives it a very pleasing and picturesque appearance. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z For the credit of human nature he records some other instances of the like kind, showing that a spark of humanity might occasionally be struck out from the flinty breasts of these marauders. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies There were originally three brothers of them; and when I first kenned them, they were ragged, barelegged callants, but every one of them as keen as a Jew, and as hard as a flinty rock. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 The priest Olmedo stretched forth his arm, holding a crucifix: Christian and Tlascalan knelt down upon the flinty ridge, and mingled together sullen prayers. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico A stiffening pride, made flinty by the old man’s hostility, shut into silence some things that Spurrier might have said. The Law of Hemlock Mountain There are olive-groves and there are cultivated fields, but there are more of flinty hillsides and rocky steeps. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Before her, through the little iron gate which her escort had pushed open, was a garden, a little austere looking with its prim flower-beds, filled with hyacinths and crocuses, bordering the flinty walks. The Hillman At tightening midnight the flinty lake cracked with a running shriek. A Yankee from the West A Novel The afternoon wore on; Bront� sat at the table, watching the features of the reader as they changed from somber to gay, and from flinty fierceness to melting pathos. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 The old hag had a flinty heart which nothing save money could soften, and he was without a sou. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia Reflecting now upon the devious methods and motives of mountain intrigue, Gregory's eyes grew somewhat flinty as he bluntly inquired, "How does ye mean hit's a mincy business?" The Tempering The little garden gate had opened and closed with a click; there were footsteps upon the flinty walk. The Hillman Also some flinty slates, mixed, in thin layers, with compact, yellowish limestone, and some pebbles of jasper interleaved with flinty slate. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea When they were in the desert and wanted water to drink, again he lifted this rod and struck the flinty rock, when the water burst forth, and they drank and were refreshed. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Sometimes a Thor's hammer breaks this flinty rock in pieces. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 It was after four o'clock, and darkness was not far distant; the piercing wind swept through the streets, blowing the flinty dust before it; the ground was frozen hard as steel. Anne Industrial Hillsboro, however, held—or was held?—to the flintier hills, bleak and bare and brown, where the big smelter overhung and dominated the north. Stepsons of Light Some of these specimens contain corallines and terebratulæ; and at the lower end of the defile there are horizontal strata of limestone, covered by a thin layer of flinty slate. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Would the flintiest of fathers, would the most primitive rock-hearted of parents, resist an appeal like this? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance In the Far Western States the telegraph poles and fence posts are soon cut off at the ground by the flinty knives the wind carries. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Well, it was only one more lesson out of the volume of the world’s hard and flinty teaching; but, as we said, Gerard was still very young, and the lesson was bitter. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley I have no hope of liberalizing the missionary, of humanizing the sharks of trade, of infusing the conscientious drop into the flinty bosom of policy, of saving the Indian from immediate degradation and speedy death.... Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) His eyes were a cold flinty blue, deep-set in a strong masculine face. Warrior of the Dawn Returning to his cave he found two flinty stones, shredded a fallen branch and nursed the shards dry in the strong sunlight. Voyage To Eternity Dawson added the last because of the flinty look that had suddenly leaped into Farmer's eyes. Dave Dawson at Casablanca —Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs; or as the moon is moved, When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He's a strange man, is Old Phin; a hard case in most ways; but p'raps now he has got a soft spot in his flinty old heart for boys. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners Weak, colourless, insipid as it is, if, however, it always continues to fall in the same place, it will in time hollow out the flinty rock. Priests, Women, and Families The one in the lead was elderly, her hair wisped with gray, and her face was lined by years and passions; her eyes were flinty, her mouth thin and cruel. World of the Drone In the north a Boother or Boulder, is a hard flinty stone, rounded like a bowl. The Lay of Havelok the Dane But in this paradise of beauty dwelt a cruel and barbarous people, proverbial for their bloody deeds, whose hearts were more callous than the flinty rocks that reared their majestic heads above their woody mountains. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment In person he was lean and sinewy, of the best New England mould, built for times of trouble, fitted to grapple with the flintiest hardships. John Brown An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College First upon the air the reports of two guns being fired off quickly, one after the other; then the quick flinty sound of a horse's galloping hoofs. Portia or By Passions Rocked But still it held firm in the terrible, vise-like grip of those flinty walls, and might hold for days, flooding the valleys for miles back, and threatening all before it with certain destruction. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible; Thou--stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Two six-pounders were conveyed on elephants, and our march seemed to lie through the bed of this ravine, which was rocky, and watered by a crystal current that rippled along its flinty bed. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment The sky was cloudless, the desultory breezes that swept the plains blighted growing things, raising little whirlwinds of fine, flinty alkali dust and spreading it over the face of the world. The Coming of the Law Saying which, he drew out the small crucifix from under his shirt, and the flinty potato disappeared; but he noticed that one of its eyes moved. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore The roads are hard and flinty, like pounded glass, which were making some of the cattle-teams and droves very lame and foot-sore. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 It is a mammoth conglomerate of such an interestingly curious compound and of such flinty hardness. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century When I arrived at the bottom, I saw elephants, camels, and horses, men, women, and children, that seemed hanging on the projecting bosom of the flinty rock, or suspended from the clouds. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Where the ground is packed hard, the flinty combination of ice and grit goes deepest, though even in exposed situations only to a depth of three feet or so. Old Plymouth Trails Perhaps, the flinty hardness, the indifferent crispness, of that voice raised dim memories in the woman's mind, for her glance wavered, for the first time. The Wilderness Trail But these men were used to roughing it, and on the flinty pavement they slept as soundly as on a bed of down. A Castle in Spain A Novel Of course there was music of an entrancing sort, the numbers being especially designed to touch the flintiest of hearts, and Henriette was everywhere. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman "There is no mistake," Faith's mother insisted flintily. The Beggar Man It was the battle of gravity with flinty hardness and strong cohesion. Alaska Days with John Muir He rolled about in it, in spite of its flinty and rocky bed. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century When Moses took his rod and struck the flinty rock in the wilderness, out of it there came a pure crystal stream of water, which flowed or through that dry and barren land. Sovereign Grace Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects Then, one knows not why, But one’s away after a flinty heart. In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age "She is young," said the Beggar Man, flintily. The Beggar Man He turned and rose and took her hands in his one flinty hand and said quietly: “We need you–we need you badly right this minute.” In the Heart of a Fool The material is generally a flinty jasper of reddish and yellowish hues. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 To penetrate the official structure was a harder undertaking, the thickness thereof being some nine feet, and the masonry of flinty stone, firmly cemented, and hardened into a compact mass by the lapse of years. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts Again expressing their gratitude to the man for his repeated kindness, Ned and Jo stretched themselves upon the flinty floor, and quickly glided into the land of dreams. The Wilderness Fugitives The day was very hot, and the sun, glancing vertically upon the flinty rocks that paved the causeway, rendered the heat more oppressive. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 The hands were flinty and hairy and brown, but they looked effective with an intelligence almost apart from the body which they served. In the Heart of a Fool Dolores stood still, sweeping the scene of destruction with a gaze of flinty penetration. The Pirate Woman The iron rebounded from the solid masonry as though driven against a sheet of steel, for the flinty stone turned it easily, and only a shower of sparks answered the blow. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts Miss Armstrong managed cleverly enough to strike a little spark of epigram from the flinty dialogue. Audrey Craven His eyes were sullen with satiety, his heart flinty. Melomaniacs His face was flinty, and his red hair was untrimmed at the neck and ears. In the Heart of a Fool Which shall leave the other walking in this flinty path alone? Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Yellow Pine was pointing at a broad, deeply trodden, flinty looking rut in the surface of the prairie. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White A soft thudding of hoofs came muffled through the trees; it rose to a flinty clatter, which in its turn diminished, and ceased. The Trimming of Goosie Twenty feet below is a bare floor of flinty lava and broken shell. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 He walked with stooping shoulders and bowed head, and held his claw hand behind him in his flinty, red-haired hand. In the Heart of a Fool Thou who, in this flinty pathway, leading through a stranger-land, Passest down the rocky valley, walking with me hand in hand, Which of us shall be the soonest folded to that dim Unknown? Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition What, dost thou envy me my miseries, My chains and flinty pavement, where I oft In sleep behold the image of the death I wish, Forget my sorrows and heart-breaking anguish? The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy |
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