Word: brash
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...articulate irony and a sense of feeling "in." Occasional strays get up and walk out muttering "Communist," but the in-group would all understand the college freshman who says, "He has a cool way of digging deep." There is an out-group too, people who find Sahl too brash and offensive. Warmth is simply not his gift, but this is not to say, as is often claimed, that he is a nihilist or that he hates everything. "His people" see him as the black knight of the implied positive-an idealist whose darkly critical moods really imply a yearning...
...took his first brash step into politics as a member of a nationalistic youth group specializing in street brawls. Che finished high school with distinction, and then, moved by the suffering of his father's mother* as she lay dying of cancer, decided to become a doctor. At 19 he entered the University of Buenos Aires Medical School...
...instead, fondly remembering the day in the 1920s when he and some other big leaguers met Britain's King George V. Each player, upon being introduced to His Highness, was told to say: "I'm honored." The first few players carried off their lines perfectly. But not brash Casey Stengel. "When the King gets to me," said old Case, "I look right at him, raise my voice a little and say, 'You're honored.' He never batted an eye. Maybe he felt honored, at that...
...Marre was evidently aiming at a brash, vulgar, Broadway slickness, to the extent that he had anything specific in mind at all; but with limited amounts of money and time, all he could manage was the vulgarity and the brashness. Most of Todd Bolender's choreography seems to be designed for a chorus of unusually limited capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that characterizes bad amateur Gilbert and Sullivan. His can-can (to the famous tune dragged in from Orpheus in Hades) is probably the soggiest in history...
...negligible 1.4% of the work force. But this is part of the trouble. Manufacturers find it all too easy to sell to the domestic market. When it comes to competing abroad, noted The Economist, "the British nowadays have an old fogy's habit of treating the sometimes brash, brassy and rather fanatical export drives of some of their main competitors as a superior sort of a joke...