Brashest

Mr. Hubbard was once known as the brashest of jazzmen, but his personality as well as his music mellowed in the wake of his lip problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He could say the rashest and brashest things, hurt your feelings and make you like it ... because there was no personal sting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The collection's brashest pieces included pastel floral prints overlaid with opaque Swiss black gauze and fastened together with rayon piping. ❋ Mary M. Lane (2011)

Now, the company cherished for its bold use of colored stones, cabochon cuts and serpentine coils is making its brashest move yet: a merger with French luxury giant LVMH. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Volkswagen AG has one of the brashest goals in the auto industry — to dethrone Toyota Motor Corp. as the world's largest auto maker. ❋ Vanessa Fuhrmans (2010)

This is the fruitiest, brashest Tavel I've tasted from the vintage. ❋ Jay McInerney (2011)

Sally Cooper asks four of the hottest, brashest, most honest novelists in Canada, Claudia Dey (Stunt); Nalo Hopkinson (The Salt Roads); Russell Smith (Diana); and RM Vaughan (Spells) to open up and spill their thoughts on sex in fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After 10 years doing little more than the occasional cameo role or voice-over – and a return to standup comedy last year – Shandling has reappeared not on television, where he became a superstar, but in the biggest, brashest Hollywood blockbuster of the summer: Iron Man 2. ❋ Joanna Walters In New York (2010)

I am informed by reliable sources that Spurs have a new breed of supporter, and that the loudest, brashest and most charmlessly geezerish football followers in London are no longer to be found at the Bridge but the Lane. ❋ Paul Wilson (2010)

There was no sense of intimacy, no subtlety, no emotional give and take with the audience except in the brashest of ways. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At a recent concert for the Prince of Wales's Trust, Geri, the brashest of the group, pinched the princely posterior. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The founder of Amazon. com knew it would be all too easy for the world's biggest, brashest bookseller to offend the French. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dumars (above, top, center) made his rep on one of the brashest teams ever to wear NBA uniforms, and he made it as a When Sport magazine named the NBA's "classiest" players, Dumars swept the voting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Today the highly touted Italian Riccardo Ricco, one of the brightest and brashest rising stars on the ProTour, won his first Tour de France stage with an impressive victory in Stage 6. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His brashest call came in 1999, when he hired a former White House intern with weight and other issues, Monica Lewinsky, as a Jenny Craig pitchwoman. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Stephane Breitwieser, 33, who carried out some of the brashest art thefts the world has ever seen, sat sobbing in a French courtroom earlier this month. ❋ Unknown (2007)

HAMMER (voice over): He is one of the brashest, most confident, and high flying acts in music today. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Season after season, he kept them brimming with lawmakers, staffers and their guests, part of a multimillion-dollar congressional care and feeding project that even the brashest K Street lobbyists could only watch with awe or envy. ❋ Unknown (2004)

MOOS: From the brashest of reporters to the more reserved. ❋ Unknown (2005)

MOOS: From the brashest of reporters to the more reserved, CNN's Jeanne Meserve -- ❋ Unknown (2005)