Adjective, : brassy tones. ,a big, brassy nightclub. From Dictionary.com.
The storm wasn't far away now, al though the sun still shone brassily. From Wordnik.com. [So Close and No Closer]
The tugboat, which was doing its very best to be run down, got away just in time, and its band was playing clashily and brassily a popular but impolite air. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Hanging a left to the West Coast, she tackles movie songs, brassily belting out Busby Berkeley golddigger songs from black-and-white Warner Brothers musicals of the 1930's with a Joan Blondell heart of pure platinum. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Bob's Mom Has E.S.P. ��� Mary Cleere Haran at the Carlyle] Reference
If it doesn't work, we need to look for other reasons: choice of tempo, dynamics or perhaps – speaking rashly in this Mahler-fest anniversary-mad year – in the music itself, especially in the exciting but brassily gaudy final minutes. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Proms 65 and 66 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle] Reference
But summer — or, rather, "summer" (in terms of actual release dates, the multiplex version now starts before Memorial Day and is all over but the shouting by mid-July) — is Bugs's season in the sun, wherein profit is brassily conceived as not only an end in itself but also a means of gaining industry prestige, otherwise known as beating the competition. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Shill] Reference
Gossip Girl, brassily rails against the show on the grounds that, by popularizing. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
In the drawing-room below the gramophone was dealing brassily with "Mister Blackman.". From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens] Reference
In the drawing-room below, the gramophone was dealing brassily with "Mister Blackman.". From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm] Reference
That suitcase had an air of solid finality about it, and its lock leered at me brassily. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference
'You probably need a pump,' he blurted out, and, chortling brassily, she leapt upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Some "world cities" brassily proclaim their status and pay by the billions to lure trade and culture. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
He had brought with him a bright blue book, stoutly covered and brassily locked, on which was inscribed the word "Schemes.". From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
The tugboat, which was doing its very best to be run down, got away just in time; its band playing clashily and brassily a popular but impolite air. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
Lamenting Washington's "deficit of trust," Obama gave an example of the reason for it when he brassily declared: "We are prepared to freeze government spending for three years.". From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Then rapidly as it had formed, the picture faded and the two awe-struck watchers stood gazing at the frost spicules that glittered brassily in the unwholesome light of the false suns. From Wordnik.com. [Connie Morgan in the Fur Country] Reference
She would not see when, at its top, small as a fly at the point of a pencil, he waved his hat and, ululating brassily, gave vent to the desire to be noisily vocal which had clutched Sissy's throat into silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
If it doesn't work, we need to look for other reasons: choice of tempo, dynamics or perhaps - speaking rashly in this Mahler-fest anniversary-mad year - in the music itself, especially in the exciting but brassily gaudy final minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
At this moment the music burst out with a fearful pandemonium — a strident squeal of pipes, a rattle like castanets and the hoarse thump of drums, above which a man’s voice was brassily squalling. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
He shakes his brassily gold. From Wordnik.com. [Albloggerque] Reference
The big bell of the ranch boomed brassily. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Trail] Reference
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