flinty

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

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

From Golf Digest • May 18, 2010

Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes."

From Time Magazine Archive

To reach a gangway, a person inside the cove would have to leave the cliff wall for the open sands, and pass round either Needle Point or Flinty Point.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore