brassiness

Example Sentences

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How boring the world would be if all the Beccas were shamed into hiding by people who think brassiness is just a failure of breeding and taste.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2018

Copper brightens red hair beautifully, while Platinum strips brassiness from blond and grey hair and brightens any white and silver; the Gold shade glosses my hair like nothing else.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017

Temple's brassiness, her infectious good spirits and spunky optimism enchanted viewers, creating a cult of personality that began in the Great Depression and has never gone away.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2015

Hardy gave his heroine a symphonic range, and all an actress can do is pick out certain tones and strains—the fluted whimsy by which Bathsheba is occasionally stirred, or the brassiness of her anger.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

And studying the fellow's countenance, he decided that, despite its brassiness and simple cunning, it was scarcely the countenance of a rascal.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold