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
She was joined in the top 10 by another U.K. singer, Raye, who favors swank Sixties outfits and has a brassy hit called “Where Is My Husband!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Before she met Felber, Dunham was mulling tapping into her experience of spending extended periods in England for work and the culture clash of a brassy American coming to the U.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
As performers, Waddington and Alfaiate are less timeless than than they are out of time, bringing soul and shading to silent-movie archetypes of the timid man and his brassy gal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Herrmann’s orchestra imitates a swing band’s jazzy rhythms and brassy sound.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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
We called these tin-plated drivers our brassies, and they were certainly an improvement on our original clubs.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
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 Sewell Ford
And the others thought hard, And trifled with their brassies and things, And could not make answer.
From Outlook Odes by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
I am a strong believer in having reserve drivers and brassies, even if one is only a very moderate golfer.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
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
He subdues the brassier side of his sound here, like the British trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler, whose flowingly elegant “Mark Time” is the album’s only cover song.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2015
The cornet could be heard approaching nearer and nearer becoming brassier and brassier.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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
American's George Washington Hill, the brassiest to-baccoon of all time, dreamed up the slogan "It's toasted" for Lucky Strike—even though all tobacco went through the same toasting process.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer, as given by the brassiest brass hats in the area: Three weeks ago it began to look as if the Japanese had decided they did not want to invade Australia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jim Sawin said last night you was the brassiest man he ever see.
From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer
