(superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
(2) So Gus instructs his fixer, a flinty, aging hitman named Mike, to take Jesse on as a partner for the day and give him a task that will raise his self-esteem in a way working for Walt doesn't.
(3) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(4) Yet the audience eyed him with flinty scepticism, worrying away doggedly at the same unwelcome question: why won’t you tell us how you’d cut welfare?
(5) But outside the hall, in that berserk flinty wonderland of dot-eyed monsters that doesn’t actually exist anywhere outside of Farage’s own mind, it went down a treat.
(6) To be frank, he looks like a home counties Tory MP clean out of central casting – middle-aged, chinless, with that blend of plummy vowels and flinty eyes peculiar to posh hardline rightwingers.
(7) No more national curriculum, with its mumbo-jumbo instructions, learning outcomes and prior attainments; no more targets, prescriptive exams, huge burden of time-wasting and arse-covering record-keeping; no more flinty-faced, telltale, confidence-wrecking Ofsted inspectors, lurking in class with their clipboards.
(8) "We are emerging as the only party to do something on a very fundamental level which people want done in British politics which is to be tough and flinty on the difficult decisions you need to make to restore the economy to strength but doing so as fairly as possible.
(9) If Mel and Sue give Bake Off its wit, the judges – the grandmotherly, somewhat patrician Mary Berry and the flinty-but-twinkly master baker Paul Hollywood – are its twin deities.
(10) First shown giggling uncontrollably during a family dinner, Suzette is soon revealed to have a flinty, unyielding side.
(11) It seems, buried within that gaúcho flintiness and the extended freedoms he offers his players – forbidding before this World Cup only “acrobatic” sex – that Scolari has a rare ability to let high-end talent breathe.
(12) As Flinty Jim becomes increasingly peeved by emerging links to the shadowy loner who talks in metaphors about breaking lambs' necks, your blood drains, your heart leaps to your mouth and all manner of other physiological phenomena associated with banging drama occur, as well as a newfound spirituality as you start to pray that it isn't really him.
(13) With his flinty attention to text, Gaskill was as much teacher as director.
Granitic
Definition:
(a.) Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
(a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(2) The spirograms of 118 granite quarry workers were digitised using an electronic digitising pen.
(3) Better estimates of exposure-dose relationships in talc and granite workers as well as longer-term animal studies are required to evaluate the harmfulness of these work environments at present-day exposure levels.
(4) The taxpayer remains on the hook for Northern Rock (Asset Management), which has about £50bn worth of mortgages, many of which were parked offshore in the perfectly misnamed "Granite" vehicle, which turned to dust during the credit crunch.
(5) It is concluded that occupational exposure to granite dust is associated with an increased proportion of lymphocytes and an increased concentration of immunoglobulin in lavage fluid that may reflect a subclinical immune inflammatory response.
(6) His granite-hard nature poetry won him both critical praise and a wide readership, which only grew after his appointment as poet laureate in 1984.
(7) Poland hold nerve after Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka blazes penalty wide Read more It was a turgid and torturous game, heavy on physicality and sorely lacking in class, particularly in the final third.
(8) The £4,000 granite memorial was smashed up to be used as landfill at the request of Savile's family.
(9) His style plays to Peter Mandelson's ingenious line (which I don't think Lord Mandelson believes in for a moment) that Cameron is plastic to Gordon Brown's granite .
(10) Alex explains that a vast granite bowl beneath our feet prevents water draining away, creating the swamp into which Stapleton eventually disappears.
(11) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(12) Nine granite workers with 4 to 36 yr of employment in the industry and 27 unexposed volunteers were normal by history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, blood count, spirometry, and chest radiograph.
(13) The frequency and correctness of respirators were studied in 5 granite quarries in Singapore involving 201 workers.
(14) While Southampton held out the vision of authorities generating power on a larger scale, Cornwall raised the prospect of tapping geothermal energy from the county's granite base.
(15) UKAR – which currently has 389,000 mortgage and loan customers inherited from Northern Rock and B&B – announced on Tuesday that it had repaid another £3.7bn in its financial year, taking the total to more than £14bn, and was on course to repay another £5bn by selling off Granite.
(16) It’s raining, but Peter keeps us entertained, explaining how the 22-mile granite Mourne Wall was built, passing over 15 mountains to enclose a reservoir catchment area.
(17) The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for lung cancer was 200 (44 observed, 22.0 expected) for all skilled stone workers, 808 (7 observed, 0.9 expected) for skilled sandstone cutters in Copenhagen, 119 (8 observed, 6.5 expected) for skilled granite cutters in Bornholm, 181 (24 observed, 13.2 expected) for all unskilled stone workers, 246 (17 observed, 6.9 expected) for unskilled workers in the road and building material industry, and 111 (7 observed, 6.3 expected) for unskilled workers in the stonecutting industry.
(18) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
(19) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
(20) However, due to the high radioactivity of aggregates, composed of granite mainly extracted locally, the mean Ra equivalent activity of concrete is high compared with that in some countries.