| With the abruptness of a striking cobra, Noah backhands him across his face. |
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| Contrasting the abruptness of earthquakes is the slow drift of tectonic plates. |
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| He permitted himself to think that it was the abruptness of events that bothered him. |
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| The choice of words, the degree of abruptness, formality, friendliness, and softness all may have ethical dimensions. |
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| Although they had long feared for the future of their club, they were not prepared for the abruptness of the end. |
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| The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable. |
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| The abruptness of the closure announcement has left them shocked and desperately searching for an alternative venue. |
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| That abruptness, that collapse gave rise to a system which is not today pluralistic at international level. |
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| This procedure now occurs with far less abruptness than before, which polishes operational refinement to an impressive state. |
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| From this vantage point, the abruptness of China's current slowdown looks more cyclical than structural. |
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| The knee setting determines the abruptness of the slope of the ratio setting. |
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| The abruptness of the operation creates overpressure which adds to the existing pressure in the pipes and can have serious consequences? |
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| The size and abruptness of the price surge have generated macro-economic imbalances across the world. |
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| Indeed, any elections that have been held in the region seem to owe more to American abruptness than to European patience. |
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| The comedy is in the abruptness of the stop and the incongruousness of the change. |
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| Given the abruptness of his departure, he may yet have to decide himself, aides and friends say. |
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| With all its youthful unconcern towards compositional technique, this music displays his seriousness and strength of expression, together with a dark instrumental timbre, as well as an abruptness or at times brusqueness. |
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| Despite clear signs of deterioration, so far the European labour market has held up relatively well given the abruptness of the economic downturn. |
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| The scale of leverage that was justified in this way contributed to the abruptness of the serial collapse of large establishments that had made the fortune and reputation of Wall Street. |
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| The decision by Renault has also provoked outrage because of its abruptness and through its apparent lack of concern with the rights of the employees. |
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| The authors conclude that the abruptness, wide geographic distribution and magnitude of recent ice loss appears to be unmatched over the last few thousand years and unexplainable by the known natural causes of variability. |
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| Analysis of the economic context has shown the abruptness of recent changes, with the expected emergence of the Chinese economy, which itself followed the emergence into the world economy of most of the countries of Asia. |
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| The phenomena of thermical inversion in the depth of the valleys, the different orientation of the hillsides and the abruptness of the fluvial canyons bring about the proliferation of varied climatic conditions. |
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| Large quantity of tunnel construction shows that rock loosing and displacement mainly takes place in the surrounding rock of hard rock tunnels, with the characters of small deformation and abruptness. |
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| Borders throughout the world have been established by war and conquest, and Africa is unusual rather in the abruptness of the transition than in the arbitrariness of the outcome. |
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| These former academics and teachers, startled by the abruptness of their elevation and untrained for office, quail at the approach of journalists. |
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| In short, the ballad method of narration is directed toward achieving a bold, sensational, dramatic effect with purposeful starkness and abruptness. |
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| Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know. |
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