Certainly, the brassy independent women of "On the Town" could not be more like Ms. Comden.

He smiled at the recollection of those times, and noticed that the brassy woman backed away.

These characters include strong, brassy, long-suffering women who exhibit diva-like behaviour and stoically battle through an array of tragedy and misfortune.

The brassy, slightly older woman (Pamela Tucker-White) seems to have wandered in from a less political play; she offers momentary comic relief.

Certainly not this tawdry, brassy, blousey woman waggling her tongue at him across the table.

Sheila - a brassy woman who sang of losing herself at the ballet - is being played by Deidre Goodwin, a black woman.

The raw brilliance of Ian Fleming's novels has been forgotten in the blizzard of bullets, brassy women and naff gadgetry.

The same brassy woman who'd spoken earlier did so again.

A ravishing, brassy blond woman crossed from the house to the phone booth, giving Constant a look of haughty contempt.

Preston's wife, Polly, resents his affair with Carla, an ambitious, brassy young woman who also happens to be his boss at the BBC.