Word: brazen
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...Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle Ages...
...Taylor's, compositions. Inevitably, the pressmen wanted to catch Mr. Gershwin before he sailed for London. They wanted to ask him if he were fond of animals, if he had ever been arrested, what he thought of U. S. women, U. S. traffic laws, U. S. music. The most brazen among them, a goggled fellow, rapped sharply on the door of Gershwin's stateroom. "Come in," drawled a voice...
...candle light, and the champagne punch, in fleeing before the straight gown, electrics, and lemonade, have also removed some of the grace that went with the quadrille. Or can it be that the efficiency of nowadays, as exhibited in the change from the graceful bow of invitation to the brazen cut-in, has enabled the present generation to get the same amount of enjoyment out of the dance in less time...
...executed by small combinations of stringed instruments and piano. Four or five solemn-visaged performers huddle their chairs into a little group in the centre of a platform and discourse with sweetness and subtlety-without the dramatic, vulgar crash of percussion units, without the resounding blare of brazen-throated trumpets and trombones. Such music demands a cult-and a temple...
Then the "Gold Banders" launched into von Suppe's overture, Light Cavalry. And Stokowski began to get what he wanted. "I wanted the tone-color to sound like gold," he explained to the audience. "I wanted the band to look like gold?the golden, brazen look of sunlight...