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Seen one way, the woman who once brassily led the charge toward a more progressive America has changed so much that her downfall marks progress of a different kind.

From Slate • May 30, 2018

It comes from Bosker’s friend — and Sherpa — Morgan Harris, a precocious, brassily opinionated sommelier at New York’s Aureole.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2017

There's a heart-stopping moment when May spurns the departing Tom's kisses while you hear the brassily cheery music of the boys' brigade off stage.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

It's touchingly effective, and much tauter and less brassily assertive than the 40-minute Metamorphic Variations, which Bliss completed in 1972, three years before his death.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2010

He had brought with him a bright blue book, stoutly covered and brassily locked, on which was inscribed the word "Schemes."

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar