Around 6 I would watch the sun set brassily over the ocean.

"Don't go home without it," she instructed, brassily.

She didn't have the courage to walk brassily up to the mage, who was pestered with unending questions from other students.

A new Yale lock glittered brassily below the old rusted bolt on the front door. '

Ejected cartridges rattled brassily on the metal floor as the group tested the action of their handguns and rifles.

Jenny called up brassily.

In the drawing-room below the gramophone was dealing brassily with "Mister Blackman."

It is also his penchant for trumpeting his disenchantment with the party as brassily as possible.

"Biythe, we would appreciate it if-" "Biyght," the girl corrected her brassily.

"Madison has to be flipping over in his grave," she declared brassily in outtalking an opponent on a show last week devoted to the church-state issue.

They announce the arrival of spring as boldly and brassily as front-row trombones herald the arrival of a marching band.

Last May he brassily professed his belief that "our Nation needs campaign finance laws that place the interests of individual citizens and political parties above special interests."

When she felt hostility from her black neighbors after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., she responded brassily, "I didn't shoot the man."

The scene was picked out now and again by shafts of roasting sunlight funnelling down brassily above an occasional cauliflower top or through a chasm in the cloud-curtain.

NYPD cruiser radios echoed brassily above the noise of whining police and hospital emergency sirens at the helicopter crash site near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Viktoriya Zavileiskaya's genuinely funny Stepmother was another highlight, suggesting the kind of brassily kooky Auntie Mame that the actress Elizabeth Ashley might create.

Nell's new wedding ring gleamed brassily against the dull red stuff of her dress, and on the simple bodice, just below the round neckline, hung a pearl drop on a gold chain.

Under the plea arrangement, less generous than one he brassily rejected two years ago, Mr. Rostenkowski pleaded guilty to two mail fraud charges involving converting House funds for personal use.

It is brassily attacked and quite crazily yodled by the production's scene stealer, Mary Stout in the role of Pawnee Jill (usually Pawnee Bill), Buffalo Bill's rival.

The upside-down beam of a flashlight at floor level gleamed brassily off a security badge and made dark lines along the regulation creases of the guard's light-blue shirt as he helped her to sit up.

His appearance had changed little; his curls were as brassily yellow as ever; his eyes, like those of King Casmir, were round, an iota too close together, and somewhat minatory, or so it seemed.

Ms. Plummer's Sharla is a delight, at the beginning a brassily self-assured trailer park Circe, then a bewildered wreck, while Mr. Shannon's Chris is a perfect, self-pitying lout.

And how can a history of fashion photography exhibit be complete without Jean-Baptiste Mondino's 1990 portrait of Madonna looking intense and brassily aggressive in Jean-Paul Gaultier's postmodern gold corset?

Dr. Rosenbach, who earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and often exercised his claim to the title, brassily broke auction house records throughout his long career, often making news with his spending sprees.