The phrase "as bracing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is invigorating or refreshing, often in relation to experiences or sensations.
Example: "The cool breeze on the beach felt as bracing as a splash of cold water on a hot day."
Alternatives: "as refreshing" or "as invigorating".
The formality is as bracing as the distortions, but Tanowitz doesn't quite sustain the mood or the pitch of invention.
This new compliation parody is about as bracing as the prime minister's recent reception in The Washington Post.
Yellowtail is buttery, while mackerel is as bracing as an ocean wind, and octopus and giant clam are appropriately chewy.
FEW sticker shocks are as bracing as the price of hiring someone to help with the simplest activities — bathing, toilet use, dressing, eating and moving.
OVER a bustling stretch of Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the words on the faded marquee are as bracing as ever.
His book — argumentative, gallant, parked athwart oncoming historical traffic, as if on a dare — is as Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water.
When an unexpected reprieve appears, it's as bracing as a splash of ice water, a reminder of how arbitrary and brutal the system can be.
There is no better time to climb Mon adnock than in autumn, when, with summer's indolent fever gone, the air is as bracing as a five‐star cognac.
Italy isn't exactly known for its sauvignon blanc, but this is minerallic, sculpted, streamlined, herbaceous, and as bracing as the mountain air in which it's grown.
Of the classics, the hot toddy is strong and flavored with piquant orange peel; the Penicillin is as bracing as a crushed pill.
And a total lack of crooked pinkie pretension that, round these parts, is as bracing as a dive into the British briny.
