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Danielle Chiesi — brassily blond, provocatively attired and outrageously blunt — cut quite a figure in the shadow world where tech-company insiders and hedge-fund moguls swapped gossip about silicon chips and bottom-line earnings.

Key Plotter Pleads Guilty in Galleon Case Susan Pulliam 2011

If it doesn't work, we need to look for other reasons: choice of tempo, dynamics or perhaps – speaking rashly in this Mahler-fest anniversary-mad year – in the music itself, especially in the exciting but brassily gaudy final minutes.

BBC Proms 65 and 66 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle 2010

But summer — or, rather, "summer" (in terms of actual release dates, the multiplex version now starts before Memorial Day and is all over but the shouting by mid-July) — is Bugs's season in the sun, wherein profit is brassily conceived as not only an end in itself but also a means of gaining industry prestige, otherwise known as beating the competition.

The Big Shill 2005

But summer — or, rather, "summer" (in terms of actual release dates, the multiplex version now starts before Memorial Day and is all over but the shouting by mid-July) — is Bugs's season in the sun, wherein profit is brassily conceived as not only an end in itself but also a means of gaining industry prestige, otherwise known as beating the competition.

The Big Shill 2005

Hanging a left to the West Coast, she tackles movie songs, brassily belting out Busby Berkeley golddigger songs from black-and-white Warner Brothers musicals of the 1930's with a Joan Blondell heart of pure platinum.

Billy Bob's Mom Has E.S.P. ��� Mary Cleere Haran at the Carlyle 2001

On the doorstep stood no recognisable customer but a young woman in a vast sloppy sweater hanging round her knees, topped by a baseball cap over a shock of brassily dyed streaky hair.

Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

The storm wasn't far away now, al though the sun still shone brassily.

So Close And No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989

The storm wasn't far away now, al though the sun still shone brassily.

So Close and No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989

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.

Black Friday Patterson, James 1986

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.

Black Friday Patterson, James 1986