But it might well be that the abrasiveness and tough talk of the Bush administration, softened though it has been by the debacle in Iraq, will suit a French president keen on stirring up national pride by tough stances on Iran, for instance.
In press conferences he has also revealed a streak of self-awareness, something approaching self-deprecation, that might make some want to airbrush his abrasiveness as simple larrikinism.
Some are touting the Dutch Liberal prime minister, Mark Rutte, but his abrasiveness over euro-zone bail-outs has incurred the wrath of southern Europeans and his group now trails Mr Cameron's European Conservatives and Reformists in the parliament.
Critics charge that Iran's continuing diplomatic isolation is largely because of his unnecessary abrasiveness.
It has had forceful characters (difficult childhoods, burning ambition, tenacity, abrasiveness, on both sides: see, for those who doubt it, Ms Royal's debate performance).
Asked about the possibility of Mr Giuliani as a vice-presidential nominee, Al Sharpton, another mayoral candidate, joked that the main person on the ticket would need to have a food-taster.Yet Mr Giuliani's abrasiveness does not stop people voting for him.
The FPM far outpolled the Christian parties inside Mr Siniora's coalition, reflecting wide distrust of the older, right-wing Christian parties who had gained a reputation for thuggery during the civil war.In Hizbullah's embraceMr Aoun's abrasiveness, and March 14th's unwillingness to give him the presidency, ensured that the FPM remained in opposition.
Samples were brought back along with laser scans, to assess the abrasiveness of the asphalt, explained Maurizio Boiocchi, head of R&D at Pirelli.
And he wants to reform the special pension regimes for railway drivers and other state employees that enable them to retire early on full pension.Mr Sarkozy is the only candidate who seems both to have understood the urgency of reform and to have the abrasiveness to stand a chance of carrying it out.
But this very abrasiveness was essential to Apple's success it kept the company passenger-free and relentlessly focused on producing the next big thing.
Owing to high energy consumption and abrasiveness to pipe and materials, pneumatic pipelines are usually adopted for distances not more than a few hundred feet or metres.
