brassiness

But the brassiness of that pact struck many members of both parties as a bit much.

The band was working away with a strident brassiness which filled the room with noise.

Her brassiness acts as partial antidote to the evening's ingenuousness.

It was a machine voice with a typical uninflected brassiness that sets my teeth on edge.

The brassiness of the grass had smoothed into a leaden hue, and the sky was black.

They represent a reaction to the harshness and brassiness of some of the clothes that have been around.

Miller has used his blazing speed and brassiness to great effect, returning two kickoffs for touchdowns.

Elaine Stritch, fully grown into her brassiness, wore sequins.

Yet, as the two openings illustrate, Nashville has maintained its coexistence of garden club gentility and country western brassiness.

Her good-humored, resilient brassiness suddenly became antagonizing.

Still, you've got to like McGuire's brassiness.

There are also times when the principals' outspoken brassiness, thick accents and loud costumes threaten to turn them into caricatures.

The fading grandeur and vulnerability of this vain 19th-century Russian woman are replaced by a vulgar, 20th-century American brassiness.

Also, I use a color-correcting shampoo or conditioner that eliminates brassiness by depositing just a bit of color pigment.

Ms. Korey delivers it with show-stopping brassiness as her character cruises the room for receptive female flesh.

Small wonder that that hard-working revival seemed to have polished its brassiness to an off-puttingly blinding degree.

Here the slight crowding works; the salon artists share a big and bright space that elegantly evokes the brassiness of the salon itself.

Tears in an elderly woman weighing three hundred and twenty pounds are scarcely impressive, and I hardened the brassiness of my bluff.

Both the film and Christine, as played with an engaging brassiness by Miss Walters, are too hardboiled for such lapses.

Then it is Zeldyan's turn, and her voice is cool and firm, without bells, without brassiness, without softness.

The audience also had a soft spot for Lauren Flanigan's Musetta, which had a legitimate brassiness and nice vocal security.

Then the brassiness mellows and some duets evoke worldly adult passions that students presumably know only from books, movies, plays and other ballets.

Ms. Webb, best known for the film "Sid and Nancy," shrewdly avoids going for the obvious dumb-blonde brassiness.

Music plays the essential role it must, with songs (by Vladimir Pankov and Alexander Gusev) that shift from nightclub brassiness to gut-plumbing sadness.

Despite Tammad's belief to the contrary, I knew certain audience-appreciation dances too, most of them more subtly sensual than the out-and-out brassiness that the blondes were exhibiting.