Sentence examples for a touch brusque from inspiring English sources
Roly Sussex of The Courier-Mail wrote that "have a nice day" can sound "a touch brusque" in comparison with "you have a nice day".
As Cinderella's guardian angel, Liam Mower looked a mite brusque, if technically secure, in his solos.
Applied similarly to Manhattan cityscapes and Maine land- and seascapes, his touch is brusque, and his colors range from garish to drab.
With a brusque, painterly touch, he made elegant all-over abstractions and big, colorful storytelling pictures manned with aircraft, ships, animals and cryptic lists of numbers, letters and words (Johnson).
He works with a brusque, impatient touch in mostly grays, browns and other muted colors on canvases ranging from laptop-size to Abstract Expressionist scale, mixing and matching loops of thorny vines, architectural plans, geographical maps and passages of Cubist faceting that look as if they were lifted from early paintings by Picasso and Braque.
Step 1 in producing a subharmonic is "clunk," a brusque, decisive smack of the bow on the G string.
A caller will open with a brusque, peremptory "Chi parla?" ('Who's speaking?").
Is all that stands between a "competent" and "brusque" woman a forgone exclamation point?
In general, southerners are a little less brusque and a little more into manners than the rest of the country.
There is a brusque lament and a harmonically pungent final "Chaconne chromatique".
