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Still, she was able to relate to Marian, the quiet yet flinty younger sister who looks up to the fiery Dolours.

And when I suggested that my flinty grandmother had probably insisted my mother give the child up, he said no.

The flinty Lee remains stoic, speaking through her work, drowning her emotions in booze and pills.

Banks, on the other hand, brings a flinty mean streak to the striving Hope.

In 2013, she delivered a scene-stealing turn in Payne’s “Nebraska” as co-star Bruce Dern’s flinty, no-nonsense wife, which earned her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations along with an Oscar nod for supporting actress.