Sentences with phrase «of brassy»

I'd tackle some of the brassy fixtures in my master bathroom if I won.

A row of brassy cage pendant lights plays off the metallic sheen of the hardware and gooseneck faucet in the show - stopping monochromatic kitchen.

My blogging friend Megan of Brassy Apple wanted to push this movement along and invited women from all over to share what they looked like without make up and I...

Seattle / Shanghai is a small, meditative exhibition, dimly lit and buzzing with a low and warm frequency, in stark contrast to the Frye's last exhibition of brassy paintings by Franz von Stuck.

The script, co-written by Wong with American crime novelist Lawrence Block, is more a suggestion of stories than actual drama, and it almost unravels in the tinny, emotionally tone deaf (and fortunately brief) tale of a brassy baby - faced gambler, that Portman clomps through with little conviction.

He enlists the aid of a brassy astrophysicist (Carla Gugino) and a facetious UFO specialist (the shtick - happy Garry Marshall) who appears to have earned his doctorate at Henny Youngman U.

What you're probably not figuring on is «nice,» not from one of brassy McCarthy's vehicles.

The All - Stars lost, as usual, but some of the brassy kids who made it close are going to brighten up the pros

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Inspired by the gutsy comedy of Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky) went on to become a bold, brassy fixture on American TV, evolving from a side show act to eventually headlining her own late night show and gracing every imaginable red carpet event in between.

The God - Man's eying up all His rabble riled up over the chutzpah of these two Zebedee brothers and their brassy mama and He says it to soothe us all:

I confess I began to wonder whether, despite his brassy atheism, Mr. Hitchens didn't have a good deal of sensitivity to things religious.

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

The very streets of New Orleans are a party, filled with balmy weather, picture - perfect architecture and the brassy notes of jazz.

Because this was just when golfers were getting away from drivers, brassies, spoons and cleeks, and moving to the new numbered irons and woods, Dad was right on top of the trend.

BASKETBALI — Johnny Castellani, brassy young (32) coach who parlayed Elgin Baylor's ability into 49 - 9 record in two seasons at Seattle but resigned when NCAA cracked down on Chiefs for recruiting violations, will join up with his former meal ticket as coach of Minneapolis Lakers.

I actually already have a stack of breast pads in my dresser drawer but these will likely be in my brassier when I leave the home, if needed, and I can't say I've ever needed back up pads.

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.

As the hostility piled up, brassy Coronel became more timid, reminding people of the election but often not asking them if they planned to vote for Espada.

â $ They're a form of detergent that can fade color or make it brassy, â $ according to cosmetic chemist Alec Batis.

Allison Williams has struck a perfect balance with this polished - yet - natural - looking shade of blonde: It's rich and warm without being brassy, light without washing out her skin, and dimensional without looking overly highlighted.

I have reddish - ness to my hair but generally fight it because it looks brassy a lot of the time.

Leopard skin does come with a bit of a reputation of course and my husband absolutely hates it - still thinks it's associated with brassy barmaids!

I liked the Rust - Oleum the most because for me it was just the right color of gold without being too yellow or too brassy.

The quality is second to none, the rose gold colour of the watch is lovely not too brassy looking, really nice.

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 19, appeared to have swapped her brassy strands for a deeper blonde with fuses of light pink all over.

However, the look of it now is much prettier and less brassy looking.

I'm not talking about that painful, bright, brassy gold of the early 90's.

Sophisticated without being stuffy, this table lamp is crafted of ceramic with a satin - black finish and contrasting brassy dots.

007 Legends attempts to be a big, brassy tribute to 50 years of James Bond, but it ends up a little too ambitious for its own good, with a story that is more spectacle than substance and some new ideas that don't work together as well as they should.

She and her rival Nancy Kerrigan both hailed from working - class families, but, as Harding ruefully notes in Nanette Burstein's 30 for 30 documentary The Price of Gold, the media remade the polished, graceful Kerrigan into a «princess» and the brassy, unvarnished Harding into a «pile of crap.»

As the groom's brassy - babe stepmother, Demi Moore does her own share of scenery chewing, but at least she looks like she's having fun.

Cohen and Carter ham it up as the brassy, much - needed comic relief, and their «Master of the House» is a fun production number.

It's brassy, breezy and gut - bustingly fun; unfortunately, it's at the expense of the film's drama and pathos.

But the decision to honour its central story instead of competing with its bigger, brassier AVENGERS predecessor makes it a surprisingly personal tale about the testing of our favourite mechanic's mettle.

Yes, she's brassy and ambitious and funny, with the show proving to be an incredibly fun watch, especially for young women who are getting the mixed messages of Girls to Famous in Love thrown at them.

However, Sothern and Blondell did tend to play the same type of character — brassy, bold showgirls and the like — so I'm not surprised you were confused.

Ronan is a passive, bookish type who feasts mercifully on the old and feeble and writes stories to cast into the wind; Arterton is the practical of the two, a brassy sexpot who uses her body to pay the rent.

Fresh off her Oscar for Fargo, Frances McDormand seems intensely uncomfortable in the role of a Russian Jew, while Pauline Collins, Juliana Marguiles, and Jennifer Ehle do their best with one - dimensional war - film constructs (the religious one of quiet faith, the brassy American, the girl pinning her hopes on her flyboy boyfriend).

Most enjoyable is Anderson's brassy drunk, a jumble of confidence and desperation who gives the film its heart.

While recuperating after a suicide attempt, Lane (Mia Farrow), along with her brassy, socialite mother (Elaine Stritch), agreeable stepfather (Jack Warden), best friend (Dianne Wiest), a discouraged writer (Sam Waterston) and aging lovelorn neighbor (Denholm Elliot) all converge on the suffocating summer cottage where over the course of a season, they all have a chance to expose their cracks and chasms.

Wiig is surrounded by actresses ranging from the big and brassy — like Melissa McCarthy, playing a no - nonsense bridesmaid, who has some of the film's best lines and knows how to deliver them — to Rudolph, whose reticence is a balm amid all the yelling and whooping.

In place of conventional brassy period movie - music cues, there's beatific sample - laden electronica and contemporary Afro - Pop.

Two of Mad Men's brassiest ladies have just landed new projects: Christina Hendricks will play the lead role in Campbell Scott's (Company Retreat) adaptation of the Joan Didion novel A Book of Common Prayer.

Most of that comes from a reprise of Ennio Morricone's thumping, minimalist synthesizer score (Marco Beltrami's for this one is brassy and obvious) that plays under it and perhaps a bit of relief that this The Thing finally has a reason for so closely aping the original.

But what I found myself most appreciating about «Spy» went beyond the bouncy and brassy McCarthy's regular servings of tasty bits of business — dubbing her fists Cagney and Lacy, telling a stunned Swedish henchman to cut off his own manhood and stick it on his forehead like a unicorn's horn, or accidentally mistaking a mushroom - like hot towelette for an appetizer.

Midler's scenery - chewing turn as the brassy central character remains virtually the only worthwhile element within Stella's overlong running time, as the movie suffers from a fairly stale narrative that's compounded by an absence of compelling supporting figures and an often unreasonably deliberate pace.

At this point, it may not surprise you to learn that Midge — a plucky brunette heroine with a penchant for talking especially fast — comes from the mind of Amy Sherman - Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls and some of TV's brassiest broads.

Per Showtime's official synopsis: ««I'm Dying Up Here» delves into the inspired, damaged and complicated psyches of a fictional group of competitive but close - knit comedians mentored by Goldie (Leo), a brassy comedy club owner who rules over her business with an iron fist but nurtures her comedians with tough love.

Bong, his cinematographer Darius Khondji (1991's Delicatessen), and his gifted effects team (Erik - Jan De Boer is the VFX supervisor and leads his team with staggering results) provide frequent and brassy use of close - ups of faces.

That a stirring biopic about one of the most famous Americans in history, filled with brassy supporting performances from Oscar veterans like Tom Wilkinson and Tim Roth, with a 99 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, couldn't get more Oscar attention feels more than surprising — it feels insulting.