(1) The beach was flinty ; there was no pavement, no electricity, no scuba divers with credit cards.

(2) An excellent performance against Kildare in Leinster and a thrilling win over Offaly in the first round of the qualifiers made Carlow a more flinty proposition than normal, but Limerick stayed calm and eased their way diligently past.

(3) Burley was hewn from flinty , industrial Ayrshire.

(4) The always reliable actress brings a flinty edge to the formidable Maggie.

(5) Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.

(6) Curiously, they all carry (wear, pet, hug) rocks on strings like prehistoric necklaces - a metaphor, perhaps, for survival in a flinty world of not very much.

(7) Coupled with the characteristic flinty aftertaste of the Chablis this is a great white to slurp.

(8) The latter spoke first, gaze turning flinty as she turned her attention to the uninvited guest.

(9) But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty , thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges.

(10) He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow.

(11) Its problem is that it is a very flinty wine that leaves a kind of sour aftertaste on every possible opportunity.

(12) It was, in many ways, his finest appearance - the flinty New Englander's feelings on full display for perhaps the first time in his candidacy.

(13) He is a famously flinty treasury secretary, a man suspicious of international aid and bailouts, who isn't afraid to say so.

(14) He had bright, flinty eyes and an air of silent confidence - one of those men whose alpha status seems to emanate from their pores, their rank in any group somehow implicit, beyond question.

(15) She often has only a few moments of screentime to get across what phase Lureen is in, but as we follow her from a wild and flirty girl to a flinty woman trapped in a loveless marriage we feel a complete and three dimensional character.

(16) He is able to get outside his flinty , tightly wrapped personality just enough to convince a majority of voters that he deserves another chance.

(17) I'll provide some facts and my own point of view on our recent history to challenge his flinty attitude.

(18) In Sarah, he had found a tall, power-dressing, glamorous partner, serious and flinty , with a successful business record in developing a right-on public relations company.

(19) Shape and texture terms tend to be applied to wines with a high degree of acidity, as angular, austere, flinty , steely.

(20) Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty , defiant humour.

(21) Classic Sancerre ingredients all coming together skillfully with sharpish gooseberry fruit rolling along a mineral path leading to a flinty finale. 5 Stars.

(22) Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work.

(23) Portraying the flinty faces of science - daunting complexity twinned with numbing wonder - demands both craft and art.

(24) The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.

(25) Bougrier Tourraine 1998 Sauvignon Blanc, $9.95 - A delicate, crisp white wine with tart fruit flavours and a subtle, flinty finish.

(26) His epic-length reflections sweep aside not only the flinty facts, but the vital importance of history and tradition in our constitutional architecture.

(27) Under my feet the flinty soil shattered into a thousand arrows pointing a hundred different ways.

(28) It appears to be a little cavern of death; a wooden stake has been driven through the privates of one of the fellas, while a flinty knife points at the woman.

(29) London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho.

(30) From the coiled, flinty Gethsemane, through the almost jaunty I'll Tag Along and One Door Opens to the slurred tango of First Breath, this is an album of exciting accomplishment.