brass ring

That’s a fundamental concern of sculpture in every artistic age and culture — its brass ring, if you will — and here it does yeoman’s work in energizing spaces both actual and illusionistic.

“They are that brass ring that everyone chased, only to find that it was made out of tin,” Shapiro said.

Upgrading once-ignored food into tasty, healthy treats is the brass ring of food waste prevention efforts.

There is no ladder of success in the business, there is no brass ring at the end.

Abloh hadn’t studied fashion design, but he had worked his way through false starts, fashion competitions, his own brand, DJing and collaborating until he grabbed one of the industry’s few brass rings.