flinty

The person at the handlebars, whose back Colin clutches in moments of adrenaline-infused intimacy, is Ray, played with a sense of flinty mystery by Mr. Skarsgård.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

But there is still a combination of flinty determination and composure under pressure that has restricted England to just eight victories in 46 meetings across more than a century.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

"It's a big old cheese -- there's a lot going on. The texture is beautiful: it's flinty as you break it apart; the crystalline in there are so delicate," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

Sweat, who is 70, has a golfer’s tan, flinty eyes, and a shirt unbuttoned just a little too far.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025

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.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

But Carney directly invoked the darker, flintier aspects of North American history when he was asked on Aug. 22 whether his country was now at war.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Colman and Weisz are Lanthimos veterans, and Weisz is even flintier here than she was in “The Lobster.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018

Dave Murphy, however, remained flintier in the aftermath: never able to fully unload himself of three years’ worth of layered fury.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2015

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.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2013

The longma beat its wings, and Anja’s voice grew flintier.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It would take the flintiest heart not to feel for Jofra Archer.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

The Granite State features some of the country's best cross-country skiing trails and resorts, and cross-country skiing is generally regarded as the flintiest of winter sports.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2013

Graeme’s appeal touched even the flintiest hearts among the conservative commentariat.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2012

By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief in survival of the flintiest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course there was music of an entrancing sort, the numbers being especially designed to touch the flintiest of hearts, and Henriette was everywhere.

From Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman by John Kendrick Bangs