(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.
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!"
Loud
Definition:
(superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
(superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.
(superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
(superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
(adv.) With loudness; loudly.
Example Sentences:
(1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(2) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(3) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
(4) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(5) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
(6) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(7) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(8) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(9) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(10) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(11) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
(12) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
(13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(14) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
(15) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(16) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
(17) But the evidence from the nation at large is loud and clear.
(18) A loudness meter that combines the spectral shapes of different sounds to produce an overall perceived magnitude offers greater promise.
(19) More important, however, context simultaneously affected the degree of loudness integration as measured in terms of matching stimulus levels.
(20) He's been speaking loudly, then realising the other customers had begun to listen in to what he was saying, he lowers it again, before continuing: – There were military planes flying low over the forest.