(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.
Lack
Definition:
(n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
(n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
(v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.
(v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
(v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
(v. i.) To be in want.
(interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
(3) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(7) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(8) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(9) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(10) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(11) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(12) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(13) Core enzyme, lacking omega subunit, catalyzed this reaction at a rate less than 1% that of holoenzyme.
(14) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(16) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(17) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(18) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(19) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(20) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.