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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

The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

As the Woodstone mansion’s resident Prohibition-era jazz singer, Pinnock drew inspiration from the likes of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith for the overt confidence of her brassy, flamboyant character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When he’d finally had his fill, he took Joyce’s hand and pulled her back out onto the deck where the band was again playing loud, brassy dance tunes.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

I see them top and slice a shot, And fail to follow through, And with their brassies plough the lot, The very way I do.

From Just Folks by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

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 Frederick Upham Adams

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

Drivers and brassies vary a little, cleeks and irons differ much, but mashies are more unlike each other than any of them.

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

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 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

With beaming approval from the Krernlin, Moscow last week was feverishly preparing for the biggest, brassiest and most bountiful New Year's blowout in Communist history.

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

Mike stuck out his tongue and blew the longest, loudest, brassiest, and juiciest Bronx cheer that Malone had ever heard.

From The Impossibles by Randall Garrett