What's the difference between brassiness and grassiness?
Brassiness
Definition:
(n.) The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not like Sheffield and Leeds, which can be outgoing and brassy."
(2) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(3) But its gleaming presence might not be quite so well received there, given that their budgets and opening hours have been cut just as this brassy behemoth opens its doors.
(4) Islamkhan was also on the ugly end of a clothesline to the throat from Bartosz Kapustka, after which Kamil Glik received a yellow card for encouraging the Kazahkstan skipper to get up by nudging him with his boot, while talking to the referee: a brassy move and no mistake.
(5) Actor Simon Pegg, who starred with Bellingham in Faith in the Future, said: “Lynda Bellingham, a gorgeous, brassy, funny, generous, talented human being.
(6) For every brassy political satire ( A Short Sharp Shock , 1980, with Tony Howard) there is a passionate study of romantic love ( In Extremis , 2006); for every incendiary tract on religious intolerance ( Iranian Nights , 1989, with Tariq Ali) there is a thoughtful examination of the nature of belief ( Paul , 2005).
(7) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
(8) Also, mutant males cannot exhibit the brassy display coloration used by wild-type males in mating and aggressive encounters.
(9) Bacterial tracheitis is the term used to describe a severe infraglottic infection characterized by toxicity, brassy cough, inspiratory stridor, subglottic oedema and the presence of copious mucopurulent secretions in the trachea.
(10) One of the songs we hear is magnificent, a brassy, blaring song featuring both Redman and Cher (“She took Dirty’s place,” smiles RZA afterwards).
(11) It gives girls self-loathing and eating disorders or, alternatively, brassy bossiness and a belief they can change the world.
(12) The brassy Sitek brass of BE tracks such as Second Bite of the Apple power the set along, and when things begin to lull, during an inadvisable space rock wig-out, Liam unleashes a couple of Oasis songs: Rock'n'roll Star (dedicated to sons Lennon and Gene) is as menacing as the clouds circling the stage, and produces the excellent ad lib: "I'm a rock'n'roll star … at 11.30 in the fucking morning!"
Grassiness
Definition:
(n.) The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(2) Continue straight on at two roundabouts from where the pavement makes its way alongside Salisbury Crags to reach an obvious grassy path.
(3) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(4) This is not like him.’” Grassi said he told friends they should not rush to judgment and that he didn’t think they had all the facts.
(5) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(6) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(7) and Grassi Milano observed that when the female gonads were cultured without steroid or gonadotrophic hormones at the start of differentiation an hermaphrodite left ovary and a male right one were formed.
(8) There are spaces built for air-delivered nukes inside grassy tumuli behind twelve-foot fences, tattoo parlours and US Air Force golf courses.
(9) 3 Turn right, follow the path through the trees until you reach a grassy area.
(10) This grassy plain is well stocked with all kinds of wildlife, including the Rocky Mountain Elk and Black-tailed deer that are the wolves’ main sources of food.
(11) Everyone I spoke to offered me advice and support and, once the race had started, the track was lined with strangers shouting the kind of encouragement usually found in the titles of a self-help library; “Don’t look back!”, “Go for it!” “Don’t be scared – be fast!” There was even a young girl with a bell, sitting on a grassy bank, ringing each lap and calling out encouragement to every rider.
(12) The route leads past Bleamoss Beck, then winds its way through the bracken landscape before crossing a grassy hollow to the foot of Wrynose Pass.
(13) Each night brought the excitement of finding the perfect camping spot in a grassy dell or spotless beach and the opportunity to explore using the Canadian canoe that we towed behind the raft.
(14) Grassi exchanged emails with Pope Francis, who was then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, when the country was debating legalising same-sex marriage, which it did in 2010.
(15) A busy highway flanking the river bank of the French capital would be replaced by waterside gardens, children’s play areas and grassy walkways.
(16) Pittini and Grassi Milano added FSH and LH to cultures of 15 days-old chick embryos testicles and ovaries and found that only male gonads developed similar to normal embryos.
(17) Nine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) developed against Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti) salivary gland sporozoites were evaluated for use in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), using sporozoites developed in Anopheles dirus Peyton & Harrison An.
(18) Grassi said that after the Davis story came out and he was contacted by the media, he thought: “Perhaps this is the time to defend him.
(19) The footpath cuts low between grassy banks that immediately recall classic canal topography; two cast-iron bridges, still with their towing paths intact, complete the illusion.
(20) I think the world has gone mad when apparently you cannot build a house at Moore Creek because of White Box grassy woodlands but you can build a super mine in the middle of the Breeza Plains,” Joyce said before voicing strenuous opposition to the project in his capacity as minister for agriculture.