How To Use Brassy In A Sentence
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Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
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The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
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I have two drivers, one brassy, a baffy or spoon, two cleeks (one shorter than the other), an iron, sometimes one mashie, sometimes two (one for running up and the other for pitch shots), a niblick, and sometimes two putters (one for long running-up putts and the other for holing out).
The Complete Golfer
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Some are little lower-case moments; others big, bold and brassy.
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You're bold and brassy when it comes to work matters as you know you're better than most.
The Sun
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The flowers, which are brassy yellow, come in July.
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Chile begin tentatively but some brassy moves at the back seem to invigorate the frontman and he rewards us with some classy moves – cheered on by his fellow players.
Pop World Cup 2010: Group H – Chile 1 Honduras 3 | FreakyTrigger
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Well," said Thomas, as he reached his ball, "that's not what I call a brassy lie.
Happy Days
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But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
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In warm climates, Carolina jessamine is valued for early spring color - its brassy gold trumpets appear anywhere from February to April.
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His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity.
Rob Roy
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Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
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I loved the smell of cork grease and slide oil, of musty woolen uniforms, and the tangy dankness of brassy horn bells.
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Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam.
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And I noticed a young girl alone up the back leaning on the bar: late twenties, lots of brassy blonde curly hair, bright blue eyes.
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He further regrets that upon trying to amend his error, he spelled it "brassier," which, if anything, means "more brassy.
Regret the Error
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My partner didn't want to play at first because of the weather, but I persuaded him to go round, and I beat him by two up and four to play solely by relying on the brassy and midiron.
The Shrieking Pit
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The tone of the keyboard was brassy, the passage-work prickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you have to know how to use bold, brassy rhythms to make light of serious subjects.
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Phyllis is the bold and brassy landlady who plays her cards very close to her chest but reveals her more sensitive side.
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The flowers may not be quite as big or brassy, but so what?
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is a much different layout than McBroom's usual bold and brassy efforts.
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This book is bold, brassy and not for the faint-hearted.
The Sun
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Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged.
The Dragons at War
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A bold, brassy babe with a pay packet to match.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
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It's a horrible brassy, golden colour which looks unnatural and harsh.
The Sun
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I'm an ectomorph with medium ash brown hair that I'm always ruining by dyeing it (so it always has garish brassy orange tones), brown eyes that I sometimes conceal with grey contacts, and cadaverously fair skin.
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Music is loud and brassy at times, nearly inaudible at others.
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Something of the same brassy colloquialism has evidently now burrowed its way onto our wall labels and into our catalogue entries, and would have refused to budge if a few of us had not learned to love our inner stickler, and accepted that there are certain limits to what one can definitely say about the original state of very old things.
Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
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Celebration and friendship washed over the brassy clutter of drawings, video projections, raw wood structures, handmade coins and other stuff.
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The one-dimensional cheerful cheeky chappie/sassy brassy tart with a heart stereotypes are no more representative of milliions of people who happen to be working class than the constantly miserable and hellishly afflicted Walford locals.
Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters
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Backed by a 40-piece orchestra loaded with bold, brassy horns and lush, lavish strings, you'll certainly pick up on that late '70s sound.
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Percussion percolates and piano rollicks through a brassy arrangement that celebrates life and the beat.
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She's bold, brassy, determined to take on the Scottish parliament - and she's virtual.
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Celebration and friendship washed over the brassy clutter of drawings, video projections, raw wood structures, handmade coins and other stuff.
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She is brassy, voluptuous, flirtatious, and fun-loving.
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The collection brings together French underground pop/psych music that was ascendent as the Gallic sun was setting on the more brassy go-go sounds of the mid-60s.
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Where Monica was bold and brassy, Amanda was quite and demure.
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If Islay's signature metal is the burnished copper of whisky stills, it gave place last weekend to the brassy sheen or sandblasted seriousness of the saxophone.
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Iron sulfide nodules typically are heavy, brassy yellow, flattened along bedding planes, and 2-10 cm in diameter.
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It's been a long time, but many of that album's most enduring qualities — its brassy brattiness and insouciant sneer among them — remain very much in Ms. Phair's arsenal.
A Musical Plan of Attack
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Her hair was cut boy-short, a strange kind of brassy reddish-gold which made him think of thunderstorms.
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This particular nest of welfare grubbers is not located in a slum tenement, though it's no less addicted to the public handouts and is absolutely brassy in its demand for more.
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A brassy divorcee with two grown-up children, she became a national sexpot as she careered from affair to affair and from crisis to crisis.
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Brassy is not a polite adjective and in ecclesiastical circles in the twentieth century Brummagem brass came to be seen as the worst expression of commercial bad taste.
Anthony Symondson on "Hardman of Birmingham"
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Resisting the temptation to play her broad too broadly, she creates a surprisingly subtle character, her hair brassy, her heart gold.
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And because "I Can't Be Myself" is a song about uneasy feelings that have no male or female attachment, Ms. Rimes can finally ease up on her default vocal style, brassy and belting, which is of course its own gender role.
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Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
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Some say they don't like Barbie because she is too brassy and they are into other things, like computer games.
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There is a note of barbarism in the brassy jar and clamor of the instruments, enhanced by the bewildering ambition of each player to force through his piece the most noise and jangle, which is not always covered and subdued into a harmonious whole by the whang of the bass drum.
Their Pilgrimage
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Fat, low, brassy blues, cynical lyric-driven ballads, a minor key waltz on a musical saw, jazz, rock, blues, country - the whole album is a love song to music.
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You need to make sure your shampoo and conditioner are not fading your colour or making your blonde brassy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her role here is just as brassy and showy, although it doesn't feature any singing.
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He unlocked the door and they stepped through a time machine into a living past of dark woods, altitudinous ceilings, vast stained-glass chandeliers, brassy firedogs, and many many oil paintings of -- incredibly -- butlers.
The Body Ricardo
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And my friend Lesley will go a bundle on the tip to take the brassy tones out of dyed blonde hair by smothering your head in tomato ketchup.
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Calling him an old blower and bloat, a gas-bag and _fanfaron_, a Gascon and a _carajo_, _alma miserabile_, and a pudding-head, a _sacre menteur_ and a _verfluchte prahlerische Hauptesel_, a brassy old blunder-head and
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Admittedly she's not the world's best singer, but her bold and brassy routine had something that once made us love her.
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Specializing in such life-threatening dishes as deep-fried macaroni and cheese and bread pudding made from Krispy Kreme donuts, Ms. Deen is high-voltage Dixie kitsch, a cartoon version of the kind of brassy, boozy aunt that the other aunts always refer to as a "hoot.
A Recipe for Escapism
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It's brassy and bold even in its unapologetic presentation of sentimental pap.
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Percussion percolates and piano rollicks through a brassy arrangement that celebrates life and the beat.
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As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More
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She pointed to a young woman with brassy red hair.
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No doubt the trombone is a little cracked and brassy, so to speak, because of a hinfluenza as has wonted him for some weeks; but there's good stuff in 'im, sir, and plenty o' lungs.
Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
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Terrain has a big brassy, or should we say chromy, cheese grater grille.
JSOnline.com
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The follow up chases hot on its heels with more brassy and in-your-face lyrics of defiance and determination.
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The men stir earlier in Glasgow; and the women have more brassy outfits.
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It's too brassy to go with summer pinks, but fine with fiery autumnal colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe someone will invite me to a wonderfully cheesy party with a brassy dance band and those silver and gold pointed hats and those wonderful noisemakers that spin and spin and spin, making that horrible racket as they go around.
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Even just before dusk, there were only a scant few Chickadees chittering about, and they were making their soft chirping calls, rather than their usual brassy ones.
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There's a glittery, brassy sort of atmosphere.
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The parrots who came to me later in life—peach-faced lovebirds, two cockatiels, a crimson rosella—preferred female voices to brassy wind instruments, particularly Joni Mitchell.
Birdology
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The director shows stunning theatrical vision in her creation of a bright, brassy, and jubilantly sassy show that had the audience stamping for more.
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The music is effective, with brassy themes of shining goodness and bass-heavy themes of scowling evil.
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She was your typical brassy blonde.
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In a perfect world, she would then have directed a stream of blackened tobacco spit dead into the centre of a freshly-cleaned spittoon, making a brassy clanging noise.
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From Dusty Springfield-inspired torch songs to big swingin’ brassy belters, Clifton & Co had the crowd all jazzed up and ready for the Big Rock Finish.
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She's brassy, outspoken, occasionally crass, and has a yachtload of money.
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Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.
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It's a sociable port, with jaunty coconut palms lining its brassy waterfront, an agreeable jumble of architectural styles and a very lived-in sense of its own history.
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She is brassy and bold and uses the rest of the press as her PR machine.
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He squinted up at the sun, which was burning bright and brassy now, and climbing the side of the sky.
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This particular nest of welfare grubbers is not located in a slum tenement, though it's no less addicted to the public handouts and is absolutely brassy in its demand for more.
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Askew as the world often seems these days, indifferent to what were once taken to be common sense and common decency, the brassy tabloid offers daily proof that one isn't crazy - or alone.
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Krystal was a brassy woman, with blond hair that was wrong and a laugh that didn't quite fit.
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But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
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As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More
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Where the villain's music has the kind of brassy, descending notes that signal cunning evil, Wells is given an almost wistful flute - music that suggests a meek, buttoned-up Victorian.
Undefined
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Both the poem and the painting scream like bold and brassy fire trucks as they herald a new interest in the art of the early 20th-century city.
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He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
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It's a sociable port, with jaunty coconut palms lining its brassy waterfront, an agreeable jumble of architectural styles and a very lived-in sense of its own history.
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He came not often, but ever was he welcome, those nights the more glorious for his qualities of humour and generosity, his tales that stirred like the brassy cry of trumpets, his tolerance of the fool and his folly, his fatalist excuse for any sin except the scurviest.
Doom Castle
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Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.
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The latest trainers are bold and brassy, loud and proud - think graphic prints, acid bright colours and flatform sole.
The Sun
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As a brassy cross-dressing farce, Connie and Carla is an energetic, if obvious, take on sexual role-playing and fake baritones, driven by a plot-line that is an unacknowledged steal from Some Like It Hot.
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 Oscillator 2 provides a-not particularly "brassy" - pulse wave, which brings in the ensemble.
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The voiceover claims that one of the women ‘has come to finishing school to get rid of her cheap, brassy image’.
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A boy and a girl twirl frenetically yet effortlessly around a dance floor to the brassy rhythms of a swing band.
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By adding the extra color, Sharp says, a TV's color gamut can be expanded from millions to trillions of colors, resulting in more natural, truer images, and the ability to more accurately display hard-to-depict colors, such as brassy gold.
Sharp readies “Quattron” LCD TVs with an extra primary color
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Though he is embraced as a guitar hero by fans of experimental fretwork, Mr. Sharp also records traditional blues (with the band Terraplane), writes for chamber groups and brassy big bands (Orchestra Carbon), throws in with electronic ensembles (such as the collaborative Bootstrappers), leads a 13-member guitar army (the All-Guitar SyndaKit) and joins creative sidekicks in hybrid projects that employ music, text and images.
The 'East Village Nosferatu' Haunts Brooklyn
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Mark's brassy, bass howl countered Raine's and they harmonized as they sang.
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I'm an ectomorph with medium ash brown hair that I'm always ruining by dyeing it (so it always has garish brassy orange tones), brown eyes that I sometimes conceal with grey contacts, and cadaverously fair skin.
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He is sociable and funny without being brassy, so whether he is schmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants or tossing vegetables on the grill during a regular appearance on Good Morning America, he is the ideal brand emissary.
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For about a minute or so, I keep standing by the window, which is suddenly awash in brassy light from the sun falling behind the ridgeline.
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Leopard, which used to be a kind of vampy slutty brassy landlady look, is now mainstream chic.
The Guardian World News
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One of the classics of this era is the Howard Hawks chiller (cue ominous, brassy music score)
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Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.
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It is accompanied by a peculiar "brassy," ringing cough, which, once heard, can never be mistaken.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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She is a big, smart, brassy woman who, after three decades in the cesspool of Philadelphia crime, isn't fazed by much.
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Early on, she was a sassy, brassy, tough dancer/chorine type, then as she became a star her image got softer.
Weekly Mishmash: March 28-April 3 : Scrubbles.net
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The music does what it needs to do to amplify and inflect the action, while also paying subtle sonic homage to the brassy Bond-style soundtracks of the past.
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From an open storefront, a brassy jukebox was blaring.
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Any roofed-over shed or shack, with doors or not, is what one generally has to put up with to-day, for housing his resplendent brassy and varnishy automobile.
The Automobilist Abroad
