flintiness

Some people, Sir, would have been all flintiness and granite.

But in this campaign her flintiness is more in favor.

He had the erect bearing and outward flintiness of a professional.

The rutted red roads were frozen to flintiness and hunger rode the winds through Georgia.

There's a certain flintiness to Rob's films.

Even small taste hints - a touch of flintiness here, some fruitiness there - can be enough to pin down a wine's origin.

Those are American traits, too - the flintiness, the suspiciousness, the vulnerability that come with lives led too individually, cut off from history, tradition and community.

Dexter watched the flintiness harden back into Jane Pargeter's face, as she pondered how much the superintendent knew.

As a three-time United States Open winner, the 46-year-old Irwin has long been known for his composure and flintiness under pressure.

"Ah, yes," she says, her voice still pleasant but holding some hint of that flintiness I remember so well from our Top of the World meeting.

Too much can mar the wine, giving off a smell of burned matchsticks rather than the flintiness that many wine writers detect in Chablis.

The linkage between the soil-its fecundity in some areas and its flintiness in others-and national characteristics in Iran is striking.

There was a flintiness to her tone that was more frightening, more shaming, than her sadness had been; but I found myself, again, vaguely piqued.

New Zealand wines are made in climates that mirror some of the northernmost vineyards in the Northern Hemisphere, which accounts for their flintiness and intensity.

For now she will have to make do, pouncing on jobs where she finds them, relying on a mix of expansive good humor and flintiness to see her through.

As played with captivating flintiness by Ms. Wanamaker, Bessie is both repellent and moving in her blindness to the blight her overbearing love spreads through the apartment.

Mr. Lee is one of the most gifted straight men in movies; his bright, swift takes are an apt contrast to the flintiness in the early scene of his dad.

Zealous and embattled, he has, along with his boyish step and glints of humor, a flintiness that may alienate him from his fellow scientists as much as his specialty does.

She plays Dorothea Westbrook, flintiness personified, an independent-minded matriarch who believes that women have the inalienable right to be extraordinary and who lives by the credo, "There isn't anything the mind can't do."

Olivier Leflaive's talented winemaker, Franck Grux, used chardonnay from Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet to create Les Sétilles' subtle tropical scent, bracing flintiness and lightness.

Fratello's successor, Matt Guokas, who coached the Orlando Magic last season, generally adds little we can't see with our own eyes, and lacks the flintiness, wit or straight-man attributes Albert thrives on with his partners.

She was famous, moreover, for her unfeelingness (offstage) and her flintiness with money (she died quite well off), both of which help explain why in the movie she glows under Wilmot's instruction but is mostly cool to his entreaties.

After 20 years of late-night comedy performances that won him acclaim for his inventiveness and wit, and occasional barbs for his flintiness and testiness, Mr. Letterman is experiencing something he has never encountered before: gratitude for his willingness to step up and lead.

A certain tough and uncompromising integrity (Wilkinson writes of his "fierceness" and his "flintiness") surrounds his reputation, along with the cultish allure of The New Yorker, where Wilkinson has himself been a staff writer of highly regarded nonfiction for 20 years.

I know there were times when an over-vivid imagination made me acutely aware of the dire possibilities and now my mind seemed to be dwelling voluptuously on the frightful power in those enormous shining quarters on the unyielding flintiness of the spatulate feet with their rims of metal.