(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.
Nervy
Definition:
(superl. -) Strong; sinewy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
(2) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(3) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(4) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(5) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(6) Both the medullary Mauthner neurons and the cerebellar Purkinje cells were only weakly immunoreactive for FMRFamide, while a group of intensely FMRFi rhombencephalic perikarya, presumably the nucleus motorius nervi vagi, occurred subependymally next to the fourth ventricle.
(7) Thickening of the affected nerve was found in the acute phase of neuritis nervi optici, trauma, optic nerve tumors and in papilloedema due to raised orbital or intracranial pressure.
(8) (Cook is sounding more confident than in the past; he can be a nervy speaker.)
(9) At the level of the obex, nerve terminations were identified in the nucleus tractus solitarius, nucleus motorius dorsalis nervi vagi and the nucleus nervi hypoglossi.
(10) These are as follows: (1) non-noradrenergic neurons in the Sc area, (2) nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis and nucleus reticularis parvocellularis, (3) group 1 (of Meessen and Olszewski), (4) a cell group extending to the ventrolateral region of the reticular formation of the pons, (5) nucleus ambiguug, (6) nucleus nervi facialis.
(11) Mechanisms of regeneration of nervi vagi efferents and normalization of the stomach activity are discussed.
(12) In 20.9% this artery originates from the ulnar artery proximally to the Hamulus ossis hamati and joins the Ramus profundus nervi ulnaris to reach the depth of the palma manus.
(13) Apart from fibroblasts, the outer layer of the epineurium contains mast cells and vasa nervorum as well as myelinated nervi nervorum.
(14) The examination was based on the anatomical fixed papilla nervi optici, which appears in the visual field as the blind spot.
(15) The nervi pelvini contained about 4000 myelinated nerve fibres, the nervi rectales inferiores and perineales 1700 and the nervus hypogastricus 2000 fibres.
(16) GABA-T-intensive neurons were found to be rich in the following hindbrain structures: inferior colliculus, nuclei of the raphe system, nuclei parabrachialis dorsalis and ventralis, nucleus cuneiformis, nucleus vestibularis medialis, nucleus tractus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus vagus, nucleus cochlearis, nucleus reticularis lateralis, nucleus ambiguus, nucleus cuneatus lateralis, inferior olive, and reticular formation of the pons and medulla.
(17) While the nervi corporis cardiaci I (NCCI) originate from the protocerebrum of the brain, the NCCII seem to take their origin in the tritocerebrum in common with another nerve named earlier as the tegumentary nerve.
(18) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(19) In pithed rats, stimulation of the Nervi accelerantes caused tachycardia, which was diminished considerably by clonidine.
(20) FMRF-IR perikarya were found in the periventricular hypothalamus, mesencephalic laminar nucleus, nucleus nervi terminalis and retina (presumed amacrine cells), and along the olfactory nerves.