Word: brashness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...editorial pages, glossy, brash Wired magazine takes the position that information wants to be free. It runs articles arguing that Gutenberg-era concepts like copyrights and patents can't be adapted to something as fleeting as digital expression. But Wired is a lot less freewheeling about its own intellectual property: it has bullied smaller publications into dropping the word wired as the name of a column. Now the newsletter Information Law Alert reports that Wired once tried to trademark (the symbol universally used on the Internet to separate a user's name from his domain) as the magazine's logo...
Some who played with him charge that Cole would cheat in tournament bridge play. Bayonne, however, dismisses that notion. "When you're real brash, that sometimes is taken for poor ethics," he says...
...very brash, very cocky, very sure, certainly a strong developing player," recalls Jeff M. Bayonne, owner of the club...
...brash display of cultural audacity, a new wave of African-American painters, writers, dancers and musicians sets off an exciting renaissance by laying claim to the artistic traditions of both blacks and whites...
...best may be yet to come, because the brash new Monster sounds as though it could become the most popular album of R.E.M.'s career. The band is planning a world tour -- its first in six years -- so most of the songs on the album are designed to rock people 10,000 at a time. Still, the songs sacrifice nothing in intelligence or depth. On King of Comedy, a robotic voice attacks pop culture for turning artistry into commerce: "I'm not your television ... I'm not commodity." Bang and Blame, an up-tempo song with meaty guitar hooks...