But there are undeniable differences in personality between the softspoken Anderson and the more brusque Bosio. |
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The staff was treating her in a very brusque and insensitive manner, and I felt the need to show her some warmth and caring. |
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Cosmonauts may tend to withdraw and speak in a monotone, giving brusque answers to questions from each other and ground control. |
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The waiter was brusque to the point of being rude and impertinent, messed up the orders and was not particularly responsive. |
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This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold. |
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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. |
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Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence. |
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He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses. |
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She headed out, almost blindly towards the market place, heedless of the glances that anyone gave her for her brusque, regal manner. |
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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. |
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With her plaid shirt and brusque manners, she is so caught up in her own family traumas she can't branch out for herself. |
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A brusque, saturnine figure, Wilbur has attempted suicide by every possible means but has yet to succeed. |
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She danced with a brusque and determined attitude, and she spoke in the same sharp, brisk manner. |
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There has been simmering resentment at the Chancellor's brusque manner when dealing with other spending ministers. |
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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. |
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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. |
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He then blocked his e-mail to me, and I haven't had the chance to experience his brusque wit or elegant expatiations since then. |
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He shared his neighbours' fundamental piety, their flyness, their brusque manners and their vigorous speech. |
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Even with a woman who clearly loves him, he is rude and brusque, abruptly rejecting any sort of overture that may lead to self-disclosure. |
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His ability was unquestioned, but his brusque and abrasive manner aroused hostility which probably hampered his early career. |
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His brusque dismissal by passers-by lends a tinge of Beckettian pathos to this very plainly told tale. |
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O'Neill has the time to effect his velvet revolution after the brusque, abrasive and confrontational approach of his predecessor. |
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Starring the brusque and vulpine Vladimir Mashkov, Tycoon is an engaging product of the wild-and-crazy school of Eastern European filmmaking. |
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The brusque application of plaster disrupts the logic of the painting's chiaroscuro. |
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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. |
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But Mr. Scrushy is also noted for a brusque style that can easily give offense. |
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He was never discourteous or brusque, or anything like that. |
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I'm sorry to be so brusque, but in the five minutes I have, if I'm not brusque I get nowhere. |
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His mild temperament, a little old-maidish perhaps, contrasted with Rosalind's brusque combativeness. |
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She is brusque and unkind to the point of obnoxiousness for much of the time but also capable of great generosity. |
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It was all so brusque and low key, there was a suspicion that someone had forgotten to recharge the Arcola batteries. |
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Service can be brusque, and the wine list won't excite, but the food is worth the wait. |
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Nor can you claim for a moment that they are rude, or brusque. |
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Those who have interacted with him describe him as brusque, eccentric, clenched. |
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And McCauley was surely friendlier that his brusque air of command indicated. |
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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. |
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The very religious, like Eagleton, may take offense at the brusque, selective, and unsystematic consideration of their creeds. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Speaking from his Soho office, Morris is brusque and breezy. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To begin with, at least, he is curt to the point of being brusque. |
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How can these youngsters learn emotional intelligence for the workplace, or lead happy personal lives, when they are spoken to with such brusque disrespect? |
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That set off a wave of criticism of the defense chief's brusque manner. |
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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. |
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It was a brusque apology, short and almost snappy, but it was genuine. |
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His brusque manner seemed to egg her on and she raised her chin a bit. |
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Doctors, like the government itself, are brusque and hurried. |
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This brusque movement makes him drop the two halves of the watermelon, which, in their turn, make a good dozen others fall on to the floor, to the amazement of the crowd that had gathered. |
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The message to them is clear: any reporter picking at the competence of Mr Museveni's administration can expect something rather nastier than a brusque cheerio at Entebbe airport, such as Mr Lambert experienced. |
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His manner was often high-handed and brusque. |
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Some investors who are focused on the strength of the lead director, however, question whether Mr. Raymond, known for his brusqueness, is effectively reining in Mr. Dimon, who can also appear brusque at times. |
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His batterymate, Buster Posey, is twenty-three, and their combined dewiness and brusque success brought references to kid heroes of the classical past. |
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A sharp, hostile feeling, the result of a brusque maneuver on the part of his pedicurist, had cut short his flight of fancy. |
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He was brusque, authoritative, given to contradiction, rough though never dirty in his personal belongings, and inclined to indulge in a sort of quiet raillery. |
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