While child abduction is nothing new, the perpetrators are becoming bolder and more brazen.
Had I known my ample posterior would have caused such a stir I would gladly have done anything to be less brazen.
A spate of brazen jailbreaks in recent years underlined how poor security is.
It's more brazen, more shot through with the raw ache of relationships and the nakedness of emotional experience.
From the first page on, there's a blunt, blatant, even brazen certainty in this work.
The couple is accused of killing a corrections officer in last week's brazen courthouse escape.
How can such brazen defiance of health and safety regulations be tolerated?
Here you cannot ignore, barefaced and brazen, the meaning of a ruinous global orthodoxy.
In the circuit of the wall are 100 gates, all of brass with brazen lintels.
David asked, hoping to make himself sound brazen as he returned the phone to his ear.
The first movement is full of blistering winds and brazen sounds, as from an ancient, pagan army.
It was clear that she was trying to brazen it out, but it wasn't entirely working.
Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
His performance combines brazen ruthlessness with charm, wit, and clear human frailties.
Check out their unique collection of brazen ballads, raw country blues and saucy serenades this Saturday from 7 pm.
Is anyone in this Government prepared to take political responsibility for what has occurred or are they simply going to brazen it out as normal?
Cleon is worsted not by an upright and dignified man but by an illiterate and brazen cynic who beats him at his own game.
If he's prepared to brazen it out with the handbag, why not with the geek pie?
They are surprised into open-mouthed silence at suddenly finding the brazen interloper trespassing within their domestic domain.
A brazen fanfare erupted from the royal minstrels, and whole ranks of armor-clad young noblemen stepped forward.
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As things get worse, we all know his instinct will be to brazen it out and hang tough.
As far as I can see the American doctors aren't as brazen as their Australian cousins in calling for a statute of limitations on tort claims.
But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper.
Then we hit the road from Strensall for exactly four brazen minutes along a dead-straight drag strip length, with wide verges for refuge.
They could be doing more, especially to stop brazen looting and rampant lawlessness that has added terror to the tragedy in the city.
And it proved that if you are prepared to put in a bit of legwork and be brazen enough to ask, you really can get some reasonable bargains.
I can only assume from the brazen behavior of these phoebes that they were protecting a nest.
This was a reaction to the growing diffusion of wigs which attracted attention, and were considered immodest or brazen in both communities.
A lot of it's just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
Everything appears brazen and hard and mighty, suggestive of Angelo's own throbbing spirit and maddened soul.
A lot of it is just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
I did not know that the governor and his cronies were attempting to use the process to extort money and favors in a brazen pay-to-play scheme.
With brazen effrontery, however, they painted themselves as martyrs for freedom.
But that pack of bald-faced lies and brazen Orwellisms was a mere amateur's work compared to the Memorial Day speech.
The brazen birds are becoming bolder by the year, encouraged by litter from takeaway meals and thoughtless people who throw them food.
Depending on your age, morals and various points of view, she was either the sexiest piece of work around or a brazen hussy or both.
Where better to locate a grandiose businessman with small-town pretensions, brazen ambition and borderline criminality?
The interesting thing is that beneath this brazen and rather crude exterior he is a quite a sensitive soul isn't he?
It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West.
One especially brazen blag at an art exhibition somehow resulted in a catalogue signed and personally dedicated by the artist.
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She wanted to preserve the brazen fighting spirit the students had exhibited in their sit-in protests.
It's pathetic that a man of this century should be talking in such an offensively brazen manner about his son's future partner.
However, sometimes a brazen BFF is so bold, brash and fearless that her naughty behavior threatens to get you both in deep trouble.
It was a decade when copious talk of universal human rights mingled abhorrently with the most brazen crimes against humanity.
Peaches makes no apologies for her brazen, in-your-face lyrics.
And yet brazen bandits prove time and again they are willing to try to return anything.
The brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
As the brazen crime leads to the discovery of several bodies, media coverage feeds a sense of security imperiled.
It is the first time that Iranian TV has publicized this type of report in such a brazen manner.
Police are warning residents not to confront a gang of brazen and aggressive thieves who have struck more than 50 times in Wiltshire, stealing power tools from vans.
Hence its brazen efforts to reassert control, by any means necessary.
Step by step, the penal and custodial apparatus of the United States has become larger, more belligerent, and more brazen.
But his remarkable combination of grandiosity, self-delusion, and brazen, utter, shameless chutzpah keeps him coming back.
I stretch out my finger and a brazen parakeet sidles onto it, inclining its head so I can gently stroke its chalk blue ruff, so downy tender that it feels almost moist.
Some sound concrete clarion calls, some are like string quartets, some trumpet brazen marches, and some squeal in sheer discord.
We were all thunderstruck by that brazen manipulation of the truth.
I do not know that, but I know a brazen hussy when I see one.
The brazen hussy then strolls off in search of a stiff drink.
No one at Wentworth was brazen enough to make a bold prediction.
I mean, my standards weren't set too high as I knew her acting ability was probably limited to playing a brazen hussy with a deep voice, but still.
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But the only man she was concerned about stood bold and brazen in front.
He was forced into an admission, including the use of 2,000 prepaid envelopes to send out the forgery, and hoped to brazen things out with an apology.
The government is short of cash and will likely brazen it out.
They just decide to brazen it out and here am I left out in the cold.
The alternative is to brazen it out and relish the impact you make.
But anyone with a friend or relative in the US, and an inclination to do so, will blithely continue to brazen it out with the traffic law enforcers.
Black-cab drivers should beware after a serial fare-dodger escaped a prison sentence last week, despite the brazen cons he pulled on trusting cabbies.
Here, you can find traces of human residences, including a neglected paddy field, collapsed stone walls, broken nickel silverware, and brazen kitchenware.
Even after the nation listened to his poisonous weasel words, the little gurrier was still trying to brazen it out to keep his job.
But the fact is, large parts of Pakistan are embroiled in tribal and religions conflict and off-limits to all but the most brazen journalists.
Where Romney is careful and cautious, Gingrich is joyfully brazen.
But he had counted without Sean Mobey who had videoed the brazen 3pm raid on a neighbour.
The Tennessean out of Nashville, Tennessee, reported on November 5 about a masked intruder who was fatally shot during a brazen home invasion.
As his two accomplices look on, the brazen bootboy shatters the glass at a family newsagents in the Aberdeenshire fishing port of Fraserburgh.
If one had to lie at all, the brazen lie was better because brazen lies were so outrageous many people failed to question them.
Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.
These are sordid customs of dying Western culture which we are embracing and drowning in howls and shouts brazen facedly.
Coming down heavily on the Bluelines, the court said their very presence on the road give a baleful look because of their brazen behaviour.
Freshman third baseman Breanne Lookabill scored the game's first run in the third on a brazen baserunning play.
He exhibited a brazen disregard for other people's feelings.
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The world has been conditioned to expect such brazen sabotage.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.
Of these legends, one of the most prominent was that he created a talking brazen head which could answer any question.
In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head.
The brazen reorganization of German territory by the French risked threatening Prussian influence in the region, if not eliminating it outright.
New Jersey police are searching for the man responsible for a brutal and brazen home invasion in Millburn that was disturbingly captured on a baby monitor.
A BUSINESSWOMAN who called her firm Brazen Hussies had to register it in Scotland after English fusspots said it was demeaning to females.
In 1898, he won the Slade Prize with Moses and the Brazen Serpent.

From far up the avenue came the boom of an ox-horn, militant, almost brazen in its sonority.
And he so astonished the Romans with his sorceries that he was honoured with a brazen pillar.
And his wife is one of the most brazen she-devils that ever joined a caterwauling!
She was an adventuress, a Cyprian, a seductress attempting to snare Peter in the brazen web of her comeliness.
He could not brazen out the effect of this escapade, however, and disappeared from the scene.
You may imagine what sort of a life danae led, shut up in the brazen tower.
He was more than ever sure that Grannie was a simpleton and Csar a brazen hypocrite.
During his popedom he kept a brazen head, which he regularly consulted concerning diabolical subjects.
In the midst of the barrier stood an altar, on the top of which was a brazen eagle.
Then whom first, whom last did Hector, the son of Priam, and brazen Mars slay?
They decided that they did not want to be kept awake nights by the clanging and the whanging of a brazen bell.
Suddenly Matho put on his cothurni, buckled on his brazen jacket of mail, and took his helmet.
At Crete the brazen Talos, who would not permit them to land, was killed by the Dioscuri.
If I were, I would tell you with a brazen simper, old as I am, that if you please, monsieur, my information is worth something.
She smiled at him, wanly, yet with a brazen coquettishness become habit.
I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.
You were insulated from all other female charms by ye brazen Bells.
They fought and fought, and an iron clank rose through the void air to the brazen vault of heaven.
The first shock of the clapper and the brazen wall made the framework upon which it was mounted quiver.
Does that brazen scroll shade you better than did the trellised vine?
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Him hath brazen Mars subdued with a spear at the hands of Patroclus.
The dwarf glanced sarcastically at his brazen friend, and, with a short dry cough, turned upon his heel to bid adieu to Miss Sally.
In the court before the tabernacle stood the brazen altar with its laver.
Still the flowing stream Sweeps on, but the swift torrents of green hours Are licked into the brazen skies between Their widening banks.
The story of the brazen serpent of the wilderness is told in num.
A brazen urn was carried round, in which every citizen deposited a pebble.
She gnashed her white tusks, and dug into the sand with her brazen claws.
A crash of brazen music burst upon the ear and drowned the voice.
Not till La Ricaneuse stands before her with bare, black arms akimbo, uttering a volley of vile abuse and of brazen impudence.
The brazen serpent was called the Word by the chaldee paraphrast.
This is furnished with brazen buckets, each holding about a congius.
O insatiate brute, and most disgusting, brazen, and scaly reptile!
The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off.
Then it fell down, and in the utter silence I heard its fall and a clank of brazen bracelets.
She gnashed her white tusks and dug into the sand with her brazen claws.
They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same.
Career Lucker made her TV debut in 1996's Brazen Hussies, and later that year appeared in Coronation Street.
It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about.
But, it was only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, contrasted with this brazen pretender.
The clock tower boomed a brazen blast above his drooping head.
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They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.

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