Adjective, : brassy tones. ,a big, brassy nightclub. From Dictionary.com.
I just love the sassiness and brassiness she brought to that role!. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Fatally-Yours Founder Sarah Jahier] Reference
As Angelica, soprano Kate Mangiameli's soprano had an edgy brassiness. From Wordnik.com. [Rarely Performed Well or at All] Reference
Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, sporting a brand new Prada jacket, kept her usual spunk and brassiness. From Wordnik.com. [Adam McKay: McCain Downplays McCain's Endorsement of Obama] Reference
Then it is Zeldyan's turn, and her voice is cool and firm, without bells, without brassiness, without softness. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
Rena Cherry Brown invests Tommy's mother with an enjoyable hard-bitten brassiness, and David Paglin nails his cameo as a cantankerous, erudite video shop owner. From Wordnik.com. [In Scena Theatre's 'Public Enemy,' you may smell a dirty rat] Reference
While asking for supportive letters is common practice for defendants after a conviction, Wasserstrom's e-mail shows "a tremendous amount of brassiness" and could cast him in a bad light, Dekle said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-30] Reference
They have stomachs that can somehow digest descriptions of white canvases, as long as the sentences are peppered with words like "aesthetic experience" and "emotional numbness" and "cynical wisdom" and "vivacious brassiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)] Reference
I love the brassiness of the faucet, and the crisp, clear stream of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed]
The band was working away with a strident brassiness which filled the room with noise. From Wordnik.com. [Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel] Reference
Coffee and tea can enhance the natural color, cover some grays, and remove brassiness or dullness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollar Stretcher Featured Content] Reference
Brit stoicism, like the nothing-can-faze-me brassiness of many New Yorkers, can be over-romanticized. From Wordnik.com. [Politics :: The Atlantic] Reference
She has good tone, and unlike many singers who stomp around Broadway, doesn't hurt my ears with brassiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference
Going grey really means bleaching out all the pigment, then using an ash colour toner to combat the brassiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Mine was single-breasted and had bigger shoulder pads, but there were the same glazed flowers and the same dopey this-outfit-doesn't-work brassiness. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Marcia Lewis, an actress and singer known for bringing a comic brassiness to Broadway revivals of "Grease" and "Chicago," died on Tuesday in Nashville. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Swinburne, on the other hand, can hardly find words strong enough to express his contempt for the "blare and brassiness" of Byron; but that also is an exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
One of the best new characters in the soaps, Poppy's humour, brassiness and all-round fabulousness have put big smiles on people's faces this month, and she'd be a very welcome permanent addition to the Street. From Wordnik.com. [lowculture.co.uk] Reference
Justin Carr has arranged the score well, and there was none of the irritating brassiness I remember from when I saw it on Broadway a few seasons ago - twice, actually, with Bernadette Peters and then Reba McEntire. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Joy Behar's brassiness works wonders even on throwaway lines ( "I'm divorced. From Wordnik.com. [Women Who Kill--Nightly] Reference
When she’d finished there were still dark stripes all over but the edge and the brassiness had been taken off. From Wordnik.com. [Hairodynamics] Reference
"unflaggingly funny" and the score by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin full of "brassiness, bite, joie de vivre, sheer cheek, and even the odd strain of sadness.". From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Their followers enjoy the brassiness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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