He was brash, irreverent.

Yet Erdoğan, known for his brash style, responded with remarkable equanimity.

He was brash, irreverent he was full of macho, a kind of macho one upmanship.

That cozy culture ended soon after the thrusting, brash Americans, who worked even over breakfast, hit town.

There are those that revel in what they see as a come uppance for brash Dubai s outsized ambitions.

The world is more complex than that, and good must not be measured on a scale as small as Mr. Land's brash heroics.

Islamic fundamentalists reckon that what the rest of us regard as the liberalizing influence of technological progress and globalization is a brash re run of Western colonialism.

It was at The Tuxedo Club, around the turn of the century, when a dress jacket was required for almost every occasion, that a brash young man, heir to an enormous tobacco fortune, caused a stir by flaunting tradition and donning a formal dinner jacket without tails.