brassy
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Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The star, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was competing with himself for song and record of the year, as the brassy “Baile Inolvidable” and the mournful “DTMF” were nominated in both categories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Like a brassy classic dame, she says exactly what she means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
We interviewed him at Gardena Cinema about ‘Anora,’ his brassy romantic comedy that should be a breakout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
From the telescreen a brassy female voice was squalling a patriotic song.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Simone Thiou de la Chaume, 15, petite Parisian prodigy, smacked her drives, whacked her brassies, cracked her irons, popped her putts in, won the British Girls' Golf Championship, was hailed "Lenglen of the Links."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a rule I need a fair drive and two screaming brassies on this long fifth before I am in position to approach across the ravine.
From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell
We called these tin-plated drivers our brassies, and they were certainly an improvement on our original clubs.
From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry
He has a larger collection of drivers, brassies, cleeks, mashies, midirons, jiggers, niblicks, putters and other tools than Billy Moon, and Moon is a specialist in that direction.
From John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Adams, Frederick Upham
Both used brassies and both were short of the green.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
As a host, Ratajkowski has a gentler presence than the brassier personalities — Cooper, Joe Rogan, Dax Shepard — that currently rule the podcast charts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Soft-spoken and diffident, Biggie gets lost within the pages of “It Was All a Dream,” upstaged by more purpose-driven or brassier peers, including fellow rapper and early career mentor Tupac Shakur.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
Once they graduated to the line, they adopted the brassier, saltier argot that cooking in conditions of extreme heat and pressure seemed to require.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Some darkly rich tones provided dramatic dimension for her first-act work before a brighter, brassier sound underlined the character’s hopeful delusions in the second act.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2019
The cornet could be heard approaching nearer and nearer becoming brassier and brassier.
From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
He goes on to sketch his brassiest teenage move of all — picking up the phone one day in 1999 and calling Walter Alvarez at the University of California at Berkeley.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018
What’s life like for those who reach for the brassiest of brass rings—the American presidency—and miss?
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2012
Staffers on France-Soir, the brightest, brassiest and widest-read daily in Paris, are used to the boss's violent temper tantrums.
From Time Magazine Archive
The competing offers turned the fight for RJR Nabisco, whose brands range from Animals Crackers to Winston cigarettes, into the brassiest and potentially most damaging brawl in Wall Street history.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day, a woman came to the Grey One, and in the lightest, brassiest way, asked to be congratulated on her engagement, mentioning the man whose attentions Marguerite had accepted as a heavenly dispensation.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington
