brass-buttoned

It WAS a menagerie of garmented bipeds that looked something like humans and more like beasts, and to complete the picture, brass-buttoned keepers kept order among them when they snarled too fiercely.

A VISION OF THE NIGHT 2010

Manu Raju and John Bresnahan are reporting that the Senate's most railroad tycoon-y member might not run for reelection in 2012 seriously, just look at the guy, we feel like he'd be more at home in a grainy daguerreotype, wearing a brass-buttoned three-piece suit, hand firmly tucked in-between the buttons of his pinstriped vest, leading to a potential shakeup in the party's leadership structure.

HUFFPOST HILL - Saturday Votes Preview Eliot Nelson 2010

Manu Raju and John Bresnahan are reporting that the Senate's most railroad tycoon-y member might not run for reelection in 2012 seriously, just look at the guy, we feel like he'd be more at home in a grainy daguerreotype, wearing a brass-buttoned three-piece suit, hand firmly tucked in-between the buttons of his pinstriped vest, leading to a potential shakeup in the party's leadership structure.

HUFFPOST HILL - Saturday Votes Preview Eliot Nelson 2010

We may love the brass-buttoned general riding at the head of his troops, waving his saber and spurring his frothy mount while his long hair flashes in the wind like a banner, but we must remember the war as a tragic, bloody half-decade that cost America close to 700,000 lives.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

We may love the brass-buttoned general riding at the head of his troops, waving his saber and spurring his frothy mount while his long hair flashes in the wind like a banner, but we must remember the war as a tragic, bloody half-decade that cost America close to 700,000 lives.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

We may love the brass-buttoned general riding at the head of his troops, waving his saber and spurring his frothy mount while his long hair flashes in the wind like a banner, but we must remember the war as a tragic, bloody half-decade that cost America close to 700,000 lives.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

I especially liked the chauffeur outfit of jodhpur-style trousers, brass-buttoned jacket and peaked cap donned by Don Ramiro, who changes places with his own servant in order to be sure that his prospective bride loves him for himself, and the slinky white evening gown worn by Angelina (Cinderella), complete with a large feather headdress dipping over her face.

A Screwball Cinderella 2009

Not long ago, big brass-buttoned military coats looked a bit extreme.

Elissa Altman: Move Over Slow Food: Introducing Slow Media 2009

This is beneath contempt, especially when it comes from a bunch of brass-buttoned non-combatants sitting in an air-conditioned office thousands of miles away from where men and women are getting crippled and dying on the basis of their decisions.

Attack of the Pentagoons 2008

A door slammed, and the circle respectfully parted for a wiry, gray-haired man wearing the brass-buttoned suit and severe demeanor of a fire chief.

Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006