English language
Toggle Transcript
Examples of flinty
flinty
He strained and grunted, grinding his heels into the flinty ground for traction.
From the thenewstribune.com
Kingsley's stage works were known for their flinty realism and social crusading.
From the time.com
Flinty, committed playing from Winstone and Morrison puts some swing in its step.
From the guardian.co.uk
Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor.
From the time.com
That leaves Costner, for all his charm and flinty ambiguity, a loser in this poll.
From the time.com
Already the east Europeans are meeting a flinty response from the EU's paymasters.
From the economist.com
Then she hits him with that flinty look we've seen Aniston give nosy interviewers.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It's a flinty piece with its own bleak poetry, and this revival should do it proud.
From the guardian.co.uk
When told about him, Sister Mary Pia's eyes became flinty, flashing defiance.
From the nytimes.com
- Containing flint
- Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- Resembling or containing flint; Showing a lack of emotion; Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel
- A descriptor for extremely dry white wines such as Sauvignon Blanc, whose bouquet is reminiscent of flint struck against steel.
- Dry, mineral character that comes from certain soils, mostly limestone, in which the wine was grown; typical of French Chablis and Loire Valley Sauvignon Blancs (Sancerre).
- A metallic smell and taste associated with wines vinified from white grapes such as Sauvignon Blanc that have been grown in particular soils.
- A dry, mineral-like flavour component that comes from soils containing a lot of limestone. It is an interesting flavour that is a big selling point for French white wines.
- Next time you are taking a stroll through chalk downland, reach down and pick up two mid-sized flints. Bang them together hard, and take a sniff: this is the smell that in wines is referred to as 'flinty', and it's often used to describe young Chablis.
- A gunflint or smoky scent picked up on Loire Sauvignon Blancs, coming from the French word "fumer" - to smoke (as in Pouilly-Fume).
