How To Use Brusque In A Sentence

She wasn't in tears; she was if anything brusque, her tone between command and entreaty. A WORM OF DOUBT
For the next two hours, the bold captain stayed below, eating and drinking, rebuffing nervous passengers and becoming more and more brusque and abusive to anyone who remonstrated with him.
-- Why have you bedizened yourself in that fashion? "he asked, with an affectation of 'brusquerie', as he tried to recover his power of speech. The French Immortals Series — Complete
These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed.
Whereas the latter had tended to deal with divisions through a process of avoidance or such extended discussion that unity was effected through boring dissidents into submission, his style was brusque and peremptory.

At the beginning of the show, the dancers approached the audience with tape recorders and brusquely asked us to give our names.
There was a murmured exchange in the chamber, then the door was pushed wide and a lean, dark-visaged man stepped onto the landing followed by a much burlier companion who commanded brusquely, “Allons-y.” A Wicked Gentleman
She danced with a brusque and determined attitude, and she spoke in the same sharp, brisk manner.
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
His manner is brusque but polite. The Sun
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a brusquerie, and a roughness to the manners. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a 'brusquerie', and a roughness to the manners. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
An Englishwoman, who met him in Burma, where his main intellectual pursuit was reading the Adelphi magazine, thought him ‘brusque and unsociable with no small talk’.
His ability was unquestioned, but his brusque and abrasive manner aroused hostility which probably hampered his early career.
To begin with, at least, he is curt to the point of being brusque.
Brett said brusquely, shutting the passenger side door and hurrying around to open his own.
Off steps a brusque and bristling figure, carrying a kitbag and casual in a crew-neck sweater.
The examination was brusque and brutal and within a few minutes tears streaked Lionel's smooth-shaven cheeks. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
It comes off once I'm back at the UN ," Silverman replied brusquely. CODE BREAKER
Duroy sentit brusquement une sensation de froid, une sorte de crispation nerveuse, un besoin d'injurier et de gifler ce bavard. French Word-A-Day:
The waiter was brusque to the point of being rude and impertinent, messed up the orders and was not particularly responsive.
His brusque manner hides a shy and sensitive nature.
The scorer walked up to him in a tea break and brusquely demanded to know his name.
His manner is brusque but polite. The Sun
try to cultivate a less brusque manner
The doctor seemed tired, impatient and brusque.
The brusque reply is still remembered of Lawson Tait, the great English ovariotomist, to a distinguished German colleague, who had inquired the secret of his then marvelously low death-rate: after a glance at the bands of mourning on the ends of the other's fingers, he said, "I keep my fingernails clean, sir! Preventable Diseases
But they are also slow to smile and rather brusque. Times, Sunday Times
The staff was treating her in a very brusque and insensitive manner, and I felt the need to show her some warmth and caring.
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
[7] [_Short pause; then he calls brusquely toward_ _the window, while he remains seated_.] The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
But they are also slow to smile and rather brusque. Times, Sunday Times
Her brusque manner concealed a caring nature.
Equally, the United manager may possibly be one of the few figures down south who can speak to referees in such a brusque, accusatory manner and not incur their wrath.
Citizens aware of the royal displeasure reacted with criticism and understanding, aware that Chinese people can appear somewhat brusque to westerners. Times, Sunday Times
Verified workaholic Rick (Milo Ventimiglia, "Heroes") is right-hand-man -- aka "lapdog" -- to hard-driving Miss Craig (Mimi Rogers) at her high-end tax law firm, enduring brusque criticisms and demands without even private complaint. Variety.com
He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses.
An accurate formulation of a patient's condition and prognosis is of little value if it is conveyed to the patient in an off hand or brusque way and is too painful to hear.
This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold.
How can these youngsters learn emotional intelligence for the workplace, or lead happy personal lives, when they are spoken to with such brusque disrespect?
For a hospital," brusquely "I can give them one thing, at least -- shelter. The Shuttle
But when she actually comes across a guy who finds her interesting, she brusquely pushes him away because of her insecurities and because he's a townie, not good enough to be associating with prep-school girls.
They are both logical and just a little brusque with me.
She was brusque in manner but, as many of her staff would testify, extremely kind and helpful in case of need. Times, Sunday Times
We also see the brutal foreman of mining company (backed up, no doubt, by Yanqui financing), arrogantly selecting the ill-paid crew of the day while brusquely warning the city boys off company property.
And some of his problems were brought on by his brusque manner. Christianity Today
Plato, writing about a doctor more than 25 centuries ago, noted "He gives off some empiric treatment with an air of knowledge in the brusque fashion of a dictator. Malcolm Kushner: Physician Heal Thyself
Nonsense, nonsense, my dear girl," brusquely, "put it out of your head at once. Jewel's Story Book
When he said, brusquely, that he was exceedingly cross, he was given nice things to smell and eat, with kindest expressions of condolence.
Of itself, if there were no other, it is considered a sufficient answer to the German Chancellor's plaint that the United States "brusquely" broke off relations without giving "authentic" reasons for its action. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
On my first return the doctor was late again, but the receptionist brusquely ordered me to go to the x-ray department for a ‘control picture’.
His brusque manner drew heat. Times, Sunday Times
And some of his problems were brought on by his brusque manner. Christianity Today
This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold.
There has been simmering resentment at the Chancellor's brusque manner when dealing with other spending ministers.
I therefore reply, briefly and brusquely, that I am not interested, and ring off.
We had been informed only the night before that the board would proceed in this brusque and unprecedented fashion.
Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
At sixty-seven, he is slight and wiry, with white hair and sharp blue eyes and a manner that is both brusque and warm.
And some of his problems were brought on by his brusque manner. Christianity Today
A lonely man,… shy, distrustful, unsociable, irritable and brusque.
With her plaid shirt and brusque manners, she is so caught up in her own family traumas she can't branch out for herself.
His brusque manner seemed to egg her on and she raised her chin a bit.
It was a brusque apology, short and almost snappy, but it was genuine.
He followed with a montage of euphemisms applied to Rahm by a pantheon of talking heads, who described him as "bombastic" and "brusque," said he "isn't afraid of breaking a little china," and "isn't a shrinking violet. On 'Daily Show,' Stewart Nails Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Politics
Vidal announced ... that I had that very afternoon importuned Barry Goldwater to accept a draft of an acceptance speech I had written for him, and that Goldwater had brusquely turned me down, all of this in the presence of ‘John Jones,’ a Goldwater aide. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
A wood thrush called brusquely, but offered no further salute to the god of day at his departure. Birds in the Bush
Coming, Kit?" he called brusquely to another older boy, who had halted to study the stranger with interest. The Soulforge
He was not less brusque in the intimation of his declinature when Pollock gave him the opportunity to send a force in support of Sir Richmond Shakespear, whom, with a detachment of Kuzzilbash horse, Pollock had already despatched on the mission of attempting the liberation of the prisoners. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
His vocalising tends to come in louder passages, like the brusque opening of the finale of Beethoven's F sharp major Sonata Op 78, and is more of an exclamatory or even explosive release.
The brusque application of plaster disrupts the logic of the painting's chiaroscuro.
Duroy sentit brusquement une sensation de froid, une sorte de crispation nerveuse, un besoin d'injurier et de gifler ce bavard. French Word-A-Day:
His secretary was rather brusque with me.
It comes off once I'm back at the UN ," Silverman replied brusquely. CODE BREAKER
`She was secretly vetted before she ever undertook any work for me," Tweed told him brusquely. COVER STORY
In one great sneeze, the umbrellas were turned inside out or took flight I watched one guest chase one through the parking lot, the vases fell and shattered, and the rose petals so delicately thrown about were brusquely blown away. Miles to Go
His secretary was rather brusque with me.
William seemed to bridle at the brusque manner of questioning, but settled down when Anne gave him a small smile that told him that he should answer.
And some of his problems were brought on by his brusque manner. Christianity Today
We had been informed only the night before that the board would proceed in this brusque and unprecedented fashion.
The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the long-haired lady whose mailbox is a pun and the brusque mother of three girls and the other next-door neighbors who like us better now and and the fella who clears every last inch of his driveway with even margins every snowfall unless he's sick would do it, too. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Which is not what I came to see you about," I answered brusquely, somewhat nettled by their incomprehension. THE DESCENT
It seemed to be taking hours, long sluicy kisses that she disappeared into, distant, empty, feeling his hand brusque on her tit, but also practical all of a sudden, yes, pushing him off and going into the closet down the hall and getting the spare mattress for the child’s bed, a Jewish heirloom of the generations. Underworld
Off steps a brusque and bristling figure, carrying a kitbag and casual in a crew-neck sweater.
In an uncanny way, he could manage to portray the deeply spiritual side of the symphonist with the craggy, almost brusque facet of the countryman.
It's notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in e-mail when you don't intend to.
She was brusque in manner but, as many of her staff would testify, extremely kind and helpful in case of need. Times, Sunday Times
I smiled, shrugged my shoulders in tantalizing repetition of my former action upon a like occasion and then answered brusquely: The Filigree Ball
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
It's notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in e-mail when you don't intend to.
Howard Dean was often brusque and abrupt with the press.
His manner is brusque but polite. The Sun
“Jim” had parted with his brusquerie when we parted from the students, and was gentle and considerate beyond anything, though I knew that he must be grievously disappointed, both in my courage and strength. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
The force of his will seemed brusquely to be quadrupled and decupled. A Man's Woman
Nor can you claim for a moment that they are rude, or brusque.
Mr.. Wyeth had not talked a great deal herself and her manner, though brusque and matter of fact, was kind; but she had asked questions about Mary-'Gusta's home life, about Captain Gould and Mr. Hamilton, about school and friends and acquaintances. Mary-'Gusta
She watched as he stood, and walked brusquely to the closet, flicking through his wardrobe.
She was brusque in manner but, as many of her staff would testify, extremely kind and helpful in case of need. Times, Sunday Times
As far as my experience goes, our roughness and brusquerie are mere politeness compared with what passes between Easterns. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
She was brusquely marched by Geonosian warriors into a circle of Jedi survivors to await execution.
His brusque manner drew heat. Times, Sunday Times
His brusque manner hides a shy and sensitive nature.
I didn't particularly like his psychotherapist, who seemed to me rather brusque and blockish, yet he seemed to establish a trusting relationship very quickly.
Diffident, brusque and self-effacing to the point of invisibility, he was not the first person you would choose if you wanted to mount a charm offensive.
The jester Le Brusquet I did not recognize at all, though I noticed the royal cipher on his pourpoint. Orrain A Romance
Major Hartley-Harrington's widow was a big, brusque woman, with muscular legs and a nose she could look down.
I hope you have not been so foolish as to take offence at any little brusquerie of mine; but no, that is improbable. The Gold-Bug
Last year Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last year brusquely dismissed the Schäuble proposals, insisting instead on roping the IMF into the European bailouts while emphasising that they could be made available only as an absolute last resort and subject to the most punitive of terms. EU leaders look to expanded bailout fund to stave off crisis
I simply haven't got time to deal with the problem today, " she said brusquely.
his antagonistic brusqueness
Drivers who grandly sweep up to the entrance of the school find themselves being brusquely waved to the side of the road.
When you look round you see friendly faces smiling at you there is no hint of anything like blame for what elsewhere might be considered as brusqueness.
His manner was self-assured and brusque.
Citizens aware of the royal displeasure reacted with criticism and understanding, aware that Chinese people can appear somewhat brusque to westerners. Times, Sunday Times
The doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
Dr Phillips is not on trial for being an old fashioned doctor or for being a brusque doctor or an insensitive and rough doctor, for being an incommunicative doctor, for being an unsubtle doctor or even for being an incompetent doctor.
His brusque manner hides a shy and sensitive nature.
The brusque style of Washington has managed to antagonize its best friends by means of anachronistic ukases and its treatment of allies as unruly children.
Questions about his place in history were turned away, sometimes deftly, sometimes brusquely, at an otherwise tedious luncheon at the official Writers' Club.
That set off a wave of criticism of the defense chief's brusque manner.
After clearing a very steep hill, the plane banks and dips abruptly to a tiny runway that ends brusquely on St. Jean's beach.
Brusquely, he pulled the head back, cleared the airway, pinched the nostrils shut, puffed between the ice cold lips.
Speaking from his Soho office, Morris is brusque and breezy.
Under the briskness and brusquerie, he was a softie and our respect for him was matched by our fondness. 'Under the briskness, he was a softie' | Julian Barnes
A brusque, saturnine figure, Wilbur has attempted suicide by every possible means but has yet to succeed.
I watched in dismay as she became overly confident, brusque and mouthy, as all teenagers must, but at the time there seemed to be a direct correlation with the strength of her fan club.
Stanley, a brusquely philistine furniture manufacturer, and Louise, his artily pretentious wife, exist in a state of permanent war.
He stood up brusquely, crumpling the paper and tossing it at my face.
Indeed, he has the brusque, taciturn manner of a true Montana native, although he was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area.
A female, whatever her age or rank may be, is invariably treated with deferential respect; and if this deference may occasionally trespass upon the limits of absurdity, or if the extinct chivalry of the past ages of Europe meets with a partial revival upon the shores of America, this extreme is vastly preferable to the _brusquerie_, if not incivility, which ladies, as The Englishwoman in America
His brusque manner drew heat. Times, Sunday Times
So even when she was rude or brusque with me I tried to be as polite as I could, knowing that there were reasons behind her attitude.
Parker's statements often seem like complete non-sequiturs; his manner is brusque and official.
I grab the letter from her hand, a little more brusquely than necessary.
At sixty-seven, van Itallie is slight and wiry, with white hair and sharp blue eyes and a manner that is both brusque and warm.
She headed out, almost blindly towards the market place, heedless of the glances that anyone gave her for her brusque, regal manner.
It's 'igh time' e was in bed," said Mr. Watlin, taking the fiddle brusquely from the Italian's hands, "'e don't fancy doleful ditties, an' no more do I, hey Johnnie? Explorers of the Dawn
The doctors are brusque and busy .
Starring the brusque and vulpine Vladimir Mashkov, Tycoon is an engaging product of the wild-and-crazy school of Eastern European filmmaking.
His brusque manner hides a shy and sensitive nature.
No sooner did they feel quite convinced that he was indifferent about his practice than they at once appreciated his services; what had been called abruptness now became truth and sincerity He was declared to be like Dr. Abernethy -- wonderfully clever, though slightly brusque in manner. Wife in Name Only
He was never discourteous or brusque, or anything like that.
But they are also slow to smile and rather brusque. Times, Sunday Times

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