Sentences with phrase «for brash»

If you're the crass, tell - it - like - it - is type who kind of enjoys stepping on people's toes, you might want to go for the brash shocking headlines and controversial topics.

Ontario's ombudsman André Marin is often criticized for his brash style but he received more positive comments on his nomination than any other candidate in the Top 25.

For the brash and brave in political life, it's best to make your words soft and digestible, because sooner or later you will be forced to eat them.

Most of his painted aluminum reliefs are amazing for their brash beauty and the witty, worldly way they play with the protocols of painting and collage in three dimensions.

Of course, the last game that Factor 5 worked on was a Superman game for Brash Entertainment.

Kratos, as a tool of the gods at this point, kills her for her brash actions.

While Cancun is known for its brash party atmosphere and boatloads of tourists, Merida is a cosmopolitan, historic Mexican city filled with locals and expats who've made the city their home.

With his trailer for Four - Hour Chef, Ferris not only provides a great sense for the brash content of the book, in this video that shows quick cuts of different topics from the book.

Importantly, however, they share the same penchant for brash styling and gloriously indulgent levels of power.

An aging and broke bad - boy rocker from the 1990s gets another shot at fame 25 years later as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.

Reese Witherspoon was the queen of the small screen this year with «Big Little Lies,» but her cinematic outing in the directorial debut of Hallie Meyers - Shyer (whose only apparent qualification for the gig was being the offspring of two filmmakers) left her stranded in a cutesy and deadly dull tale of a newly separated mom falling for a brash young would - be director.

Known for her brash comedy style and her cosmetic surgery, Rivers has worked steadily since the 50s hosting talk shows and doing stand - up.

While known mostly for his brash, rule breaking cinematic style, his films and characters consistently possess great insight into the small, seemingly insignificant moments that can change lives.

Grahame was known for her brash femme fatales in the days of black - and - white cinema, but her on - screen persona only told part of her story.

The old mining town is mostly abandoned except for a brash group of misfits, chief among them Gilly (James Ransone), the troublemaking son of the town's Marshal (John Travolta).

After several months of flirtation that created a rift in New York's G.O.P. and earned dozens of headlines for the brash real estate developer, Trump took to Twitter to formally put the kibosh on any gubernatorial run.

His Amazon.com has revolutionized online shopping and made him an icon for brash, young Internet entrepreneurs.

Renowned for his brash investing tactics and unwavering self - confidence, Ackman adopted a new tone in his most recent letter to clients, saying he entered the new year humbled and having learned a number of hard lessons.

He also referred to the Republican nominee as a «jagoff,» which is Pittsburgh vernacular for a brash person who yells and intimidates, he explained.

Linden Lab operates the virtual world called Second Life... Bolstering its rep for brash - to - the - point - of - crazy dealmaking, AOL purchased Bebo, the third - largest social network in the U.S., for $ 850 million.

Not exact matches

Famously brash and competitive, he's best known for castigating his competitors (he routinely dismisses AT&T and Verizon as «dumb and dumber»), uttering public profanities, and engaging in the occasional Twitter war — including with then - candidate Donald Trump, in 2015, in a spat over tweets in which Trump criticized mixed - martial - arts star Ronda Rousey.

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

When I was in my early 20s, I was very brash, overbearing, and difficult to work with, mostly as a result of my passion for the business and for ensuring a good customer experience.

Brash new maestro Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) is stirring things up, and young oboist Hailey (Lola Kirke) hopes for her big chance.»

«Zappos gives us a critical mass,» says Oscar Goodman, the brash former Las Vegas mayor, known for having brokered the deal that brought Zappos downtown and for his tendency to appear in public only when flanked by showgirls in full bustier - and - feather regalia.

Among them was a press darling — a man whose brash reputation and penchant for public tirades had made him one of the city's most recognizable figures.

She was known for being brash and outspoken, described in the pages of TIME as «truculent and courageous,» with a New York City accent Norman Mailer said «could boil the fat off a taxi driver's neck.»

Robbins's otherworldly persuasive powers and brash brand of popular insight have grown into Robbins Research International, a life - coaching empire that includes a massive book business (15 million volumes sold globally), an audio business (50 million programs sold), a life - coach certification business, and seminars for which attendees pay as much as $ 8,000 to be in the same room with the man himself.

Celeste Brash, a freelance writer and guide book writer for Lonely Planet, says price and accessibility is a factor as well.

Uber's reputation for somewhat assertive — some might say brash — tactics could put it at loggerheads with Chinese authorities.

So the fact that Tesla, one of several innovative companies that Musk is juggling, is now a newly minted member of the 500 Club — arriving for the first time this year on Fortune's annual register of the biggest U.S. companies — might strike some as a curious, if marvelous, oddity: the brash, antiestablishment carmaker parked in one of the reserved spaces for America's corporate elite.

While we may not be as brash about it, isn't that essentially what we're doing when we size up a potential partner for the slightest unchristian quality right off the bat?

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

It was a brash thing to say, but God forgives you and will not reject you for what you said.

For all my, perhaps, brash honesty concerning my experience with Christianity, the absolute last thing I would ever want to hear is that anything I said caused a person to give up their faith.

the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible) damage done to many lives by the brashs social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.

To Athena, your awesome thank you for keeping my temper down and preventing me from make brash fullish decisions, thank for making e calm and reasonable with the people i don't like (Christians)

Both Billy Graham and Rick Warren are ordained ministers in the Southern Baptist Convention, but their ecumenical import and stature as worldwide ambassadors for Christ have far exceeded their early success as a brash youth evangelist and a colorful church planter.

Derek (Turk) Sanderson, the brash 22 - year - old center with the longest, thickest sideburns, the widest bell - bottoms and the biggest Cadillac in the league, did not play for a month because of an injured hip.

Thirsty for success after a hardscrabble start, brash Brad Keselowski raised his game in the Chase to take his first Sprint Cup title

Rambo's name used to be Rainbow, but his brash strut and shameless preening for tourists» cameras led to the change.

At the Oldsmobile Classic two years ago, Mochrie's colleagues called her brash for — among other transgressions — charging ahead to the next tee and hitting her drive before her partners had finished putting out.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

On defense the biggest addition may be Ryan, the brash coach known for creating a feared pass rush.

Then brash Loyola broke through the Bearcat stall for an almost unbelievable last - second victory

The man left with the task of masterminding the extra-ordinary performance required in order to overcome a 1 - 0 deficit is manager Carlo Ancelotti, a man whose job is reportedly under immediate threat, to such an extent that the Italian could even be out the door as quickly as the end of the night should Chelsea's Russian billionaire owner, who is renowned for making brash decisions based on disappointing results, leave Old Trafford in a huff and once again without a hope in hell of landing that elusive UEFA Champions League.

I know a good number of people out there are brash - harsh - blunt - snappy but sometimes I find those to be excuses for them just being an ass.

Instead of presenting a mobile app to brash, «Shark Tank» - style investors in sunny Palo Alto, the entrepreneurs were pitching Internet - connected baby gadgets to cheery merchandisers from a state mostly known for freezing winters and polite passive aggression.

He may be brash — ahem, sitting naked on white furniture — but his kind heart and ability to calm even the most tense situations would make him ideal for this role.

Indeed, even as Mr. Musah Superior not quite long pointed out to the brash and brassy Asante - Jamasi / Gyamasi native, the era when Mr. Mpiani, with the tacit support of his boss, could capriciously and vindictively confer national merit honors on the bloody likes of Messrs. Kojo Tsikata, Jerry John Rawlings — the latter would preemptively reject it — John Dramani Mahama and Atta - Mills, while overtly, conspicuously and thunderously denying the same to the former NPP - MP for Akyem - Abuakwa South, are well behind us.