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How to use brusque in a sentence

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But there are undeniable differences in personality between the softspoken Anderson and the more brusque Bosio.
The staff was treating her in a very brusque and insensitive manner, and I felt the need to show her some warmth and caring.
Cosmonauts may tend to withdraw and speak in a monotone, giving brusque answers to questions from each other and ground control.
The waiter was brusque to the point of being rude and impertinent, messed up the orders and was not particularly responsive.
This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold.
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.
Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence.
He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses.
She headed out, almost blindly towards the market place, heedless of the glances that anyone gave her for her brusque, regal manner.
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.
With her plaid shirt and brusque manners, she is so caught up in her own family traumas she can't branch out for herself.
A brusque, saturnine figure, Wilbur has attempted suicide by every possible means but has yet to succeed.
She danced with a brusque and determined attitude, and she spoke in the same sharp, brisk manner.
There has been simmering resentment at the Chancellor's brusque manner when dealing with other spending ministers.
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.
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.
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.
He shared his neighbours' fundamental piety, their flyness, their brusque manners and their vigorous speech.
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.
His ability was unquestioned, but his brusque and abrasive manner aroused hostility which probably hampered his early career.
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The colonel-president, with a brusque gesture, interrupted this confession.
It occurred to him that this brusque man of action might be compared to just such a being.
He was an elderly man with white hair and whiskers, together with what I thought were objectionably brusque manners.
Generally they were rather brusque and rowdyish, and to the polite Mexicans they appeared even more so than they really were.
Then came the brusque apotheosis of 1904 at the Autumn Salon, the most revelatory of his unique gift thus far made.
Then, with a brusque movement of furious resolution, he disappeared in the night.
To do so brusque and, as it seemed to Hilary, so inhumane a thing was foreign to his nature.
It sounded brusque and unmannerly, but it was the only remark that occurred to her.
Extremely clever at any form of brainwork, she was gauche and brusque in her manners, and totally lacking in perception.
Jackson made a brusque movement, and accidentally touched the guitar.
Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitive plant.
A sin gle brusque splash was followed by the long drawn rumbling of iron links running through the hawse pipe.
A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.
I did not think of asking him for details, and he told me the story roughly in brusque, disconnected sentences.
We three remained seated round the table from which the dark maid was removing the cups and the plates with brusque movements.
At first he thought that Dirk was the cause of the disaster, and he was needlessly brusque with him.
Marilla, brusque and tearless, pecked Anne's cheek and said she supposed they'd hear from her when she got settled.
The words were civil enough, but the tone was brusque and repellant.
He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.
In most cases he is deplorably curt of speech and brusque of deportment.
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