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Flinty
Flinty meaning
Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint. | Siliceous (including basanite). | Showing a lack of emotion.
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Example sentences (12)
The front palate displays vibrant golden peach flavour, the middle palate fig, melon, nutmeg and cashew oak and the finish flinty acid.
Though he often seems settled into one of them lately, Gilmour always had his feet in two distinct worlds: He's by turns brooding and contemplative or flinty and eruptive.
A heart-warming road movie ensues as they somehow end up crossing America in the company of flinty hitchhiker Dot (Selena Gomez).
It seems Heydon's public persona of flinty moral rectitude is just as hypocritical as his lofty refrain that "black letter law" judges don't allow their ideological biases to sully their judgments.
They were dreadful away to Georgia and outclassed in Switzerland, toiled for 180 minutes against Gibraltar and flawed but flinty and effective at home to the Swiss and in both games with Denmark.
Together, they had a flinty Nick-and-Nora charm — two smart, charming people whose mutual attraction was something they needed to hide.
Dropping a friend means making a judgment call, and that can smack of flinty fault-finding.
Kathy Bates is terrific as the flinty carer suspected of murdering her well-off charge; the intervention of her estranged journalist daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) triggers flashbacks to their traumatic shared past.
No one will do it perfectly — human beings are fallible, after all — but to do it well requires a kind of flinty moral courage.
Nyrond lies between the Nesser River and Franz River to the west, the Harp River and Flinty Hills to the east, Relmor Bay to the south, and the Theocracy of the Pale to the north.
The volcanic soils create flinty cheeses and superb lentils.
While the exact style of the wine varies by producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include "flinty" notes with the Russian River Valley and mango and guava from Monterey.