11. Still, the voters have long been romanced as flinty and independent. 12. The flinty politician said Tuesday it mystified him, too. 13. Clark has maintained her popularity among voters despite her sometimes flinty image. 14. Calipari relies on a flinty starting five who play well as a unit. 15. They include crusty naysayers and flinty skeptics, but never children or puppies. 16. McNeill then wound up with a few flinty judgments about the modern world. 17. The volcanic soils create flinty cheeses and superb lentils. 18. Its flinty , tradition-minded WASPish Yankees have long made Maine solidly Republican. 19. And the flinty Charles Ives is by far America's most original composer. 20. The plateau is covered with a layer of flinty clay and a fertile silt.