Ms. Masur conveyed the brash humor of the music, as in the sloshing, tipsy waltz episode of the first movement, without ever letting it turn sarcastic.

There is brash humor in the work as well.

Mr. Hope excelled at a typically American brand of brash, timely humor.

No Motiv, from California, gave emotional punk a Valley Boy spin on one side stage, while Flipside added brash humor on another.

By 1930 Mr. Hope had become "a single," specializing in the kind of brash stand-up humor for which he later became world famous.

The sutra has been influential in East Asian Buddhism for its "brash humor" and flexibility.

The bleakness of his vision is qualified by a brash, unsettling humor that flies in the face of expectation.

Livingston's comic foil Tommy Sweetwood is an unsuccessful comedian who manages to offend his entire audience in one way or another with his brash, insensitive humor.

They were exact, and how, but at the expense of crackling energy and brash humor.

Mr. Welser-Most's performance was incisive and lively, though it did not capture the brash humor in the music.