Both Uses of
brash
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- A former stewardess, Barbara Wiggin was a brash, backslapping redhead; Mr. Wiggin called her "Barb," which was how she introduced herself in various charity-inspired phone calls.†
p. 118.1 *brash = bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless
- Among the older members of the congregation—with whom the jocular Captain Wiggin and his brash wife were not an overnight success—there was a stewing anger, apparent in their frowns and scowls, as if the shameful pageant they had just witnessed were the rector's idea of something "modern."†
p. 232.2