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
Talve’s score bobs and weaves accordingly, from big brassy horror to eerie synths to world percussion and a custom-made plastic flute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2025
Becoming essential to música Mexicana in the 1940s, this brassy woodwind instrument allowed bandas to put more emphasis on the melody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
George knows that his sister is being brassy.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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
Both used brassies and both were short of the green.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
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 Vardon, Harry
And the others thought hard, And trifled with their brassies and things, And could not make answer.
From Outlook Odes by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
The greater elaboration of such brassies as we had seen impressed us, and we also found some trouble with our oak heads in that, being green, they were rather inclined to chip and crack.
From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry
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
Wearing gold lamé pants or a gauzy floor-length cape, she would introduce herself as “a shy, innocent petite flower” before revealing another, brassier side of her personality.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 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
As a 1959 Broadway show, it was already an anachronism, surrounded by the brassier, more urgent West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiorello!
From Time ● Mar. 2, 2015
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
The visiting correspondent was the heftiest and one of the brassiest women of the Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Streisand is a showboater, a sort of one-woman Hippodrome whose roots are in the brassiest tradition of the American musical theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
She Had by the gods since time out of mind at their banquets been dreaded, Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.
From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
