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Secretary of Defense Panetta, who's known as a flinty-eyed budget cutter, is acting like the military's defender-in-chief in his new post, even though he and his new deputy secretary, Ashton Carter, also a budget hawk undoubtedly realize that the Pentagon is facing some serious slashing and burning.
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Legends, the flinty-eyed generals knew, could be dangerous things.
the wry writer | speculative fiction with a humorous slant! | Page 2 2010
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Punch makes a great comic foil for Diaz's flinty-eyed scheming, as does John Michael Higgins, who plays a principal with a dolphin fixation who is easily manipulated by the slinky Elizabeth.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Bad Teacher Marshall Fine 2011
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Legends, the flinty-eyed generals knew, could be dangerous things.
Kissed By Venus 2009
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With deepening despair I listened to flinty-eyed Alexis offer apologies instead of ideas.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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"Look, he waited for us," she said, scooping the cat into her arms, which was not an easy thing to do since he stiffened himself into a straight-legged, flat-eared, flinty-eyed scowl of a cat.
Massage 2010
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News: MURPHY, Texas - A sting in which police teamed up with 'Dateline NBC' to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about this Dallas suburb: Don't mess with Murphy.
Archive 2007-06-24 Bill Crider 2007
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Soon, it became clear there was a new set of rules to be followed, an etiquette dictated by one of the flinty-eyed girls at the table Ryan would never be invited to sit at in the cafeteria.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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In politics, especially of the American variety, this means you're either a bleeding-heart, pinko, atheistic commie or a flinty-eyed, redneck, heartless fascist.
The fallacy of binary thinking Janet Ursel 2008
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Soon, it became clear there was a new set of rules to be followed, an etiquette dictated by one of the flinty-eyed girls at the table Ryan would never be invited to sit at in the cafeteria.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
euphamia commented on the word flinty-eyed
My take on this phrase is "coldly calculating"; as in someone cooly appraising a given situation for whatever (usually financial or material) gain is in it for himself.
July 17, 2011
relishandbeans commented on the word flinty-eyed
Having a very serious quality or manner.
June 18, 2014