What is "brassy"

Usage examples of "brassy".

He thought of the usherettes back at the Bijou Theater in New York, the frightened little Italian girls and the big brassy Irish, and the quickies that took place in the deserted second balcony or out on the empty stage in back of the big screen while the picture unfurled itself over their nervous heads.

Now, despite the fact that there were no clouds in sight, the sky had a brassy cast to it and there was not a breath of air.

The thoughts and emotions swirling through the gloom were darker, more dangerous, against the brassy twirling of the little dark-clothed, insectoid band.

The last five hours of the engagement passed quickly and profitably in a dry rain of many-colored light that splashed and drizzled over everything, including the thundering amusement rides, and was punctuated by peals of brassy laughter.

Even where the hard, brassy glare of sunshine fell in full weight, I saw the shadows to.

Whatever it was that he had added to the band continued to augment all the music for all the subsequent acts, with jingles, rat-a-tats, hollow clunks, brassy clashes and strange, unearthly shimmers of sound.

The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.

Longarm made a mental note that for all her faults, the brassy Goldmine Gloria was a good rider.

Under the brassy cacophony, Sharina heard the faint, rhythmic music of a double flute being played in the stern of each vessel, marking time for the rowers.

Their brassy tunes skirled over city and plain alike, joyously triumphant.

Marat came through the gates, but the wounded herdbane whipped around at the sudden motion, snapping and lashing with its brassy beak, driving the Marat back.

Seeing it brings back the way he pulled the bandanna off his head to scratch his scalp, revealing the brassy color of his ropy hair.

Whitty was, I have to admit, a brassy woman, uninhibited, and definitely out of place in our conventional neighborhood.

Mirris was a tasteless brassy purveyor of blue material and smutty sight gags.

What chiefly lives in it are certain poignant phrases, certain eloquent bars, a glowing, winey bit of color here, a velvety phrase for the oboe or the clarinet, a sharp, brassy, pricking horn-call, a dreamy, wandering melody for the voice there.