Sentence examples for abrasive manner from inspiring English sources

But she was also said to have caused friction with an occasionally abrasive manner.

Ms. Mucha was also a controversial figure at times, known for an abrasive manner.

I was struck by her abrasive manner - and the double standards that came into play.

And the Mayor is Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose charms tend to be muted by a sometimes abrasive manner.

Next, to attend a hacker convention, where their suits and abrasive manner would be ridiculed until both were abandoned.

But several subordinates, objecting to the old soldier's abrasive manner, mutinied; there was a messy court-martial.

John is known to us by his abrasive, impatient manner.

He's a genius but his abrasive, brutish manner is not one that inspires trust and loyalty.

They are also bothered by what they see as his high-handed manner of answering their questions and a freewheeling, risk-taking and sometimes abrasive style that helped him build HealthSouth from nothing over the last 18 years.

He indicated in an abrasive and intimidating manner that the margins that he inhabited and personified could actually occupy centre stage in the Irish soundscape.

As party chair, she made enemies of MPs who found her manner abrasive and who doubted her grasp of the party machine.