(a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
(a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
(a.) Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
(v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(3) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(4) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(5) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(6) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
(7) This whole affair was a brazen attempt to intimidate those who believe that drilling for oil in the melting Arctic is reckless and unsafe.
(8) Sony Pictures has denounced a “brazen” cyberattack it said netted a “large amount” of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.
(9) "The offenders have for a long time been brazenly committing crimes, avoiding investigations and even ganging up to violently oppose law enforcement."
(10) The site was set up in Ukraine in 2001 and was described by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs as “the most brazen collection of carders, hackers and cyberthieves the internet had ever seen”.
(11) Or is its purpose to project an impression of Russian strength and confidence – which means that talking constantly about its brazen attitude only augments that perception?
(12) India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
(13) The news stunned many across the country, leaving them to wonder how the government failed to convict members of an armed militia that brazenly occupied federal property and then broadcast it live on social media.
(14) Simon Danczuk, the current MP for Rochdale, who named Smith as an abuser two weeks ago on the floor of the Commons, said the case indicated he was a serial and brazen abuser over many decades.
(15) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
(16) The brazenness of Temme’s testimony ignited anger in the German press about the prerogatives of its intelligence agencies, but it has since mostly subsided.
(17) Then, once they’ve drained the place of its most unnecessary items, in a show of brazen materialism, they’ll photograph their receipt and post it online.
(18) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
(19) The self-employed – long believed to be the most brazen tax evaders – will be particularly hard hit with taxes of up to 35 per cent on income earned.
(20) The Guardian view on the generation gap: youth clubbed | Editorial Read more Last week’s budget was a particularly brazen case in point, as George Osborne scrapped maintenance grants for poorer university students (worth up to £3,387 a year), did away with housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds and made one glaring exception to his new “national living wage”, which will rise to at least £9 by 2020: those under 25, who will be paid a lower minimum wage.
Impenetrable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.
(a.) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.
(a.) Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the entire process the passage between the lumen and the intercellular space remained blocked by the tight junctions, as shown by their impenetrability to ferritin.
(2) Veering between a patronising video , a vague report and impenetrable financial data does not amount to openness and accountability.
(3) Similar results were obtained with subcutaneous or intraperitoneal thymus grafts and with thymus grafts within cell-impenetrable diffusion chambers.
(4) On the other hand, the performance of a material that is liquid-proof is absolute--it is impenetrable and can be accurately described as impervious.
(5) In a 70-page document that was largely ignored and almost completely impenetrable, he said the US intended to treat cyberspace as a military battleground.
(6) This last phenomenon appears to precede the entry of some axons into the neuropil and suggests that the glia limitans may not necessarily represent an impenetrable barrier to the passage of regenerating axons into the CNS.
(7) It appears that the major part of the exclusion volume is due to the collagen-fibril as a rod and the dextran coil as an impenetrable sphere.
(8) Some of the games are based around recognisable sports (like football), others around ancient samurai conflicts – but whatever the theme, the nature of the action is absolutely impenetrable to the casual onlooker.
(9) Many of the particles could therefore pass freely through tightly woven fabrics with pores up to 10-15 micrometer which might seem to be impenetrable to whole corneocytes, typically larger than 30 X 40 micrometer in the hydrated state.
(10) QSI's intentions are no doubt honest but if players as important as goalkeepers can be owned by anonymous third parties in impenetrable offshore companies the potential for match fixing is clear.
(11) The more complex a system, the more unintelligible and impenetrable is the map of possible side effects.
(12) Spontaneous postoperative expulsion of an IUD resulted in blockage or distortion of the anastomosis in 1 monkey; and in another the anastomosis was patent for a least 5 months, but later became impenetrable.
(13) Lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination (LCI) was carried out under impenetrable conditions in intact electroplax (where protein exposure on the external surface is monitored) and in split electroplax (where total protein labeling on both the external and internal monolayers of the plasma membrane bilayer is monitored).
(14) For 45 minutes, Arjen Robben twisted and turned with the ball only to find himself confronted by an impenetrable thicket of blue-shirted Brazil defenders.
(15) And viewed again in this mood, Libeskind's building, with its blank excoriated surfaces, looks closed to understanding; in material as in spirit, impenetrable.
(16) Subsequent chemical analysis of sperm-penetrable and impenetrable samples indicated that the concentrations of mucus nondialyzable solids (NDS), mucins, and soluble proteins were significantly higher in impenetrable specimens.
(17) The mites ate the germ before the endosperm, leaving an impenetrable layer of crushed endosperm cells between these regions.
(18) Two decades after Tutu made it a shining city of defiance amid seemingly impenetrable darkness, Cape Town is finding economic liberation harder than the political kind.
(19) Insensitivities at 190 and 100 nm were common to all five types of spores, indicating that these wavelengths were particularly impenetrant and absorbed by the outer layer materials.
(20) By announcing a huge programme of bond purchases , much bigger relative to the eurozone bond market than the quantitative easing implemented in the United States, Britain, or Japan, the ECB president, Mario Draghi, erected the impenetrable firewall that had long been needed to protect the monetary Union from a Lehman-style financial meltdown.