What's the difference between brash and brisk?

Brash


Definition:

  • (a.) Hasty in temper; impetuous.
  • (a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
  • (n.) A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  • (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
  • (n.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
  • (n.) Broken fragments of ice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A fast-talking and brash Glaswegian, he had walked into the party's then headquarters in Cowley Street and offered it money.
  • (2) Hodgson’s methods, especially towards the end, were viewed as dated and a coach, as Roy Keane put it brashly a few weeks ago in a slightly different context, “who’s got the whistle around his neck and a clipboard” appears sought after.
  • (3) Letta was thrust aside by the brash, ambitious Renzi just as Italy began to show signs of growth and bond market investors appeared less concerned over the country’s ability to repay its debts.
  • (4) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (5) It is expressed quietly in the case of singer-songwriters Laura Veirs and Laura Marling, and brashly in pop with Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
  • (6) Lewis Nkosi, who has died after a stroke aged 73, once described his fellow writers on South Africa's Drum magazine as "the new Africans, cut adrift from the tribal reserve – urbanised, eager, fast-talking and brash".
  • (7) The older generation regard the set as brash youngsters scheming their way to the top in what Conway called the "bistros" of Notting Hill.
  • (8) Speaking in his hometown of Miami, Rubio congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the Florida primary while nodding to the grassroots uprising that had propelled the brash billionaire to frontrunner status.
  • (9) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
  • (10) The brash, 39-year-old Matteo Renzi is Italy's third unelected prime minister since November 2011.
  • (11) Mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk Too many Negroes, it was said, showed off the wrong things: their loud voices, their brash and garish ways; their gift for popular music and dance, for sports rather than the humanities and sciences.
  • (12) A recent visit to Hamleys' new dolls area turned up a bumper brash-pack of new fashion dolls from the big companies: LaDeeDa Dolls (a swift move by SpinMaster), buzzing Flitter Fairies (Wow Stuff), glow-in-the-dark Bratzillaz (a brazen MGA fast-follow of the huge Mattel Monster High), Ever After High (Mattel), flashing Novi Stars (also MGA, alien dolls with Camden market hair springs and extensions) and all sorts of blinky, noisy merch spinoffs.
  • (13) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
  • (14) The brash Candy brothers, who are behind some of the most ambitious upmarket residential developments in London, appear to have benefited from Kaupthing's demise.
  • (15) And while the brash billionaire may not have the support of the majority of Republicans, a growing plurality has propelled him to overwhelming victories in one contest after the other.
  • (16) As the twin inspirations of the pro-democracy movement, they were strikingly contrasting figures: Walesa a flamboyant, brash, working-class union agitator; Havel a soft-spoken intellectual from a well-to-do family, who was a reluctant politician.
  • (17) This year, an unnamed Washington media executive was quoted as saying: “There will be minimal celebrities in that room … it’s going to be difficult to get any talent there.” The gulf between the traditionally more liberal-leaning household names of show business and Trump the brash populist was evident at Trump’s inauguration in January.
  • (18) Trump likes to boast he is the only politician that doesn’t use a teleprompter, but the truth is he adheres to a well-rehearsed script in which he is the brash, uncompromising and tough protagonist.
  • (19) Charismatic and brash, the 62-year-old son of a Communist party "immortal" won admirers with a string of bold initiatives, but alarmed liberals and party insiders who saw him as a dangerously ambitious rival and a potential strongman.
  • (20) Photograph: Evgenia Eliseeva Those hoping to catch a glimpse of Walter White must have been sorely disappointed in the second act of Bryan Cranston’s brash, confident performance in All the Way .

Brisk


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
  • (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Usually the focus driving the cell most briskly was located in one of the contralateral limbs and corresponded to the limb where muscle contraction was elicited by microstimulation with the same electrode.
  • (2) An increased mortality is recorded after its brisk rise (in particular after potent proton phenomena) and paradoxically also in case of very low density value.
  • (3) Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis are diseases which are characterized by a brisk acute phase response.
  • (4) For LH, basal levels were not different among each group, nor was there any difference in response to GnRH at any point in time after injection; however, there was a trend for the azoospermic group to respond more briskly.
  • (5) There was an improvement in body temperature within six hours of the first dose; this was accompanied by a brisk fall in serum CPK and cholesterol with a rapid rise of plasma T3 into the euthyroid range.
  • (6) The briskness of the response during tachycardia may also be a marker for underlying carotid sinus hypersensitivity.
  • (7) The identification of multiple receptor subtypes for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) made by using radioligand binding techniques proliferated at a brisk rate in the 1980s.
  • (8) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (9) Water immersion to the neck for 2 h caused a brisk diuresis, natriuresis and raised plasma ANP in 8 healthy subjects, suggesting that ANP is a mediator of diuresis and natriuresis during immersion.
  • (10) In adult humans the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia (VRSH) is biphasic, characterized by an initial brisk increase, due to peripheral chemoreceptor (PC) stimulation, followed by a decline attributed to central depressant action of hypoxia.
  • (11) A brisk increase in plasma prolactin levels occurred in normal subjects during the administration of chlorpromazine and thyroid stimulating hormone releasing factor (TRH).
  • (12) These data indicate that an exercise intensity achievable by brisk walking (7.4 kph) is sufficient to evoke significant but short-term changes in serum HDL3-C concentrations in women.
  • (13) A brisk intraocular and systemic IgE antibody response followed the secondary intravitreal injection of either live or heat-killed larvae into animals systemically infected with A. suum.
  • (14) The effect of eyeball pressure on the heart rate was measured in 65 babies and was found to cause a brisk drop in heart rate in 32 babies.
  • (15) In the ferret, as in other species, two types of lateral geniculate neurone could be distinguished, and we have termed these X-cells and Y-cells; both groups responded briskly to visual stimulation but X-cells gave sustained and linear responses whereas Y-cells responded transiently and non-linearly.
  • (16) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
  • (17) They discharged most briskly before visually guided eye movements, but also discharged before purposive eye movements made in darkness and responded to visual stimuli in the absence of saccades.
  • (18) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
  • (19) Because it was 95 degrees and sunny, and because we were standing in a shadeless parking lot in the height of the afternoon, vendors selling bottled water were doing a brisk business.
  • (20) In the case presented, healing was brisk and complete, allowing early elbow mobilization.