flintiness

There was always a certain toughness about him, a stony aloofness, a quality Uncle Merlin likes to call “flintiness.”

The passing of a flinty Canadian scientist 2009

For one reason: When he speaks about the economy, the issue most on Americans' minds, he conveys depth of knowledge, the sense that he genuinely understands how to promote growth, and the flintiness to take the fight to President Obama.

The GOP's Not-So-Great Communicators Peter Robinson 2012

ÂHe was licking stones to demonstrate minerality and flintiness in a white wine.

Mary Orlin: 5 Things I'll Miss About GaryVee TV Mary Orlin 2011

There was always a certain toughness about him, a stony aloofness, a quality Uncle Merlin likes to call “flintiness.”

Lance Mannion: 2009

Then, when the ENT surgeons showed me on the scan where "about a billion cells" of cancer, product of malignant cells remaining from the earlier surgery, were now clustered --- at the base of the throat and under my left ear, in the lymph nodes --- with a new flintiness in my voice I told them they had my permission to "get it all and kill it dead, dead, dead."

Carla Seaquist: A Trek Through Cancer Carla Seaquist 2010

He was licking stones to demonstrate minerality and flintiness in a white wine.

Mary Orlin: 5 Things I'll Miss About GaryVee TV Mary Orlin 2011

ÂHe was licking stones to demonstrate minerality and flintiness in a white wine.

Mary Orlin: 5 Things I'll Miss About GaryVee TV Mary Orlin 2011

He was licking stones to demonstrate minerality and flintiness in a white wine.

Mary Orlin: 5 Things I'll Miss About GaryVee TV Mary Orlin 2011

This flintiness combined with the grape's natural freshness, together with the correctly created alcoholic level, results in a wine which is perfectly balanced.

The Subdued Side of Sardinia Cristina Slattery 2010

He smiles and half-laughs, but you feel the flintiness beneath: cool, intense, determined, unassailable.

Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010