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a flinty and determined hero
a flinty warrior hardened by years of battle
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Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards.
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Hall’s performance demonstrates a flinty understanding of the consuming costs of fighting against fascist powers.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
But Tommila’s turn retains a degree of flinty humor, even some warmth — despite never getting so much as a word to speak.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Hall’s performance demonstrates a flinty understanding of the consuming costs of fighting against fascist powers.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
But Tommila’s turn retains a degree of flinty humor, even some warmth — despite never getting so much as a word to speak.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Flinty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flinty. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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