| There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West. |
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| As I tramped pale flinty paths through the cornfields, larks sang and March hares frolicked. |
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| The latter spoke first, gaze turning flinty as she turned her attention to the uninvited guest. |
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| He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow. |
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| So here was Orwell, famous for being a flinty man of integrity, in effect throwing in the towel. |
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| I wouldn't camp again though, the field was very flinty, stubbly and furrowy not to mention floodlit by noisy generator powered lights. |
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| The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster. |
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| Coupled with the characteristic flinty aftertaste of the Chablis this is a great white to slurp. |
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| Under my feet the flinty soil shattered into a thousand arrows pointing a hundred different ways. |
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| Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry? |
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| He showed three modest-size freestanding stone sculptures with flinty, irregularly faceted surfaces. |
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| Shape and texture terms tend to be applied to wines with a high degree of acidity, as angular, austere, flinty, steely. |
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| Its problem is that it is a very flinty wine that leaves a kind of sour aftertaste on every possible opportunity. |
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| Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work. |
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| I'll provide some facts and my own point of view on our recent history to challenge his flinty attitude. |
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| At times, the performance even seemed to display in equal measures the vitality of a young Eric Black and the flinty resolve of Terry Butcher. |
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| I mean, how confident are you that you will convince those flinty eyed people over at Finance that you've got a case for more money? |
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| I settled for one hand on the lower rung and a flinty gaze into the middle distance, careful not to meet his eye. |
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| He is able to get outside his flinty, tightly wrapped personality just enough to convince a majority of voters that he deserves another chance. |
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| He is a famously flinty treasury secretary, a man suspicious of international aid and bailouts, who isn't afraid to say so. |
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| Now, there was a flinty look in Eddie's eye and a grim expression on his face as he sat down alongside the assistant coach and the manager. |
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| I happen to like feisty political personalities with regional color whether they are flinty Vermonters or silky Mississipians. |
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| Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland. |
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| There is power and crispness here, along with a sense of structure from the mineral, flinty character that underlies the fruit. |
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| Classic Sancerre ingredients all coming together skillfully with sharpish gooseberry fruit rolling along a mineral path leading to a flinty finale. 5 Stars. |
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| Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour. |
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| His epic-length reflections sweep aside not only the flinty facts, but the vital importance of history and tradition in our constitutional architecture. |
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| But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges. |
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| In Sarah, he had found a tall, power-dressing, glamorous partner, serious and flinty, with a successful business record in developing a right-on public relations company. |
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| The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie. |
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| Among the veterans there is gobsmacked astonishment that RBS, with its flinty culture, is mentioned in the same breath as Lehman Brothers. |
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| It does not take too flinty a heart to interpret that as a mandate to trim higher-education funding, even if that were to hurt the poor. |
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| More flinty types will argue that there is nothing magical about such bodies. |
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| He successfully diverted attention from his flinty views by playing to voters' worries about the economy and too much change in Washington. |
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| The orange, lemon, dried fruits and flinty notes are taken up again on the palate where there are also softer vanilla hints. |
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| The very elegant nose is a blend of mineral, flinty scents and candied lemon and grapefruit. |
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| A brilliant light yellow colour. A blend of mineral flinty aromas and very ripe fruit aromas gives a nice fresh bouquet. |
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| Its nose is discreet with flinty mineral notes and floral notes such as acacia and linden tree. |
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| As flinty and immovable as the Stone Angel itself, Hagar Shipley is defined by fierce pride she inherited from her father. |
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| Full-bodied and medium sweet, with lovely concentration and a lemony, spicy, almost flinty aftertaste. |
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| This wine is produced on the flinty clay of Saint Andelain in vines that are over 40 years old. |
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| The landscape forged the local character which is flinty and frank, a directness which is not always appreciated. |
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| For all his flinty wit and occasional impulse to antagonize, Ed Koch was, in the end, almost impossible to dislike. |
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| His immediate response showed showed his flinty ad-lib ability. |
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| The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland. |
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| There was speculation she would clash with flinty GOP holdover Defense Secretary Bob Gates. |
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| His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise. |
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| Even flinty old General Johnson, has acquired a lisp, and his voice is apt to break in the middle of a gutbucket phrase. |
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| When the time came to taste this wine, I was blown away by the utterly remarkable flinty, steely, almost petrolly, super-ripe fruit it contained, and contained, and contained. |
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| In Mr. Konchalovsky's film Jill Clayburgh plays a Manhattan journalist who treks into the deep Louisiana bayou to interview relatives, among them a flinty materfamilias played by Barbara Hershey. |
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| Clear, bright and light golden, the nose is elegant and mineral with flinty notes, almonds and citrus confit, the palate is sleek and textured with a bright freshness and a long finish. |
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| She exudes the flinty cheeriness of a fitness instructor. |
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| The fact that she comes from flinty, northern coal-miner stock. |
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| Embattled first-termers have flaunted endorsements from popular conservative politicians and pointed to impeccably flinty voting records, as graded by right-wing lobby groups. |
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| Mr. Oldman gives the movie, which at its most serious veers into lugubriousness, a nice jolt and a flinty presence that Mr. Washington can spark against. |
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| The activism, even amongst the community, was difficult and flinty. |
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| Made from equal amounts of Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir from the Marne Valley, a terroir consisting of deep clays, with flinty chalk outcroppings. |
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| The nose is nice with woody, grapefruit and flinty notes. |
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| The nose opens up with floral scents punctuated with smoky, flinty notes. |
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| Bright acidity and a minerally, flinty undertone. |
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| Our family plots of land cover some fifteen hectares of vines at Limeray. These are situated on the best areas of the flinty clay soils, suited to the production of full-bodied red wines and of fruity whites and rosés. |
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| Forming a natural mosaic of land parcels, the soil is made up of limestone pebbles in the valleys, with terraces of flinty rolled pebbles mixed with sandy red clay. |
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| Its mineral and flinty character is unique in Meursault. |
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| Complex nose, considerable minerality expressed in flinty notes. |
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| The plateau is covered with a layer of flinty clay and a fertile silt. |
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