Sentence examples for abrupt beginning from inspiring English sources

Magnificent and frightening, they suggest an abrupt beginning and a shattering end.

With its abrupt beginning and improvisatory structure, it is a radical work, although not in the way that radicalism is customarily defined.

It has an abrupt beginning, a false ending and a convincingly live feel, down to the crisp solos from all involved.

His approach is uncompromising, but not confrontational, and despite the abrupt beginning his relationship with his employers and staff, and even the local press, has been harmonious.

When writing The Origin of Species, Darwin ([1859], pp. 306-309) puzzled over the abrupt beginning of life's fossil record: after long, seemingly lifeless eras, an extraordinary diversity of marine life suddenly burst forth into the geological record.

Once the rather abrupt beginning is out of the way, the slog-along course of sorrowful saint and offspring makes for mildly engrossing fare.

She pushed him back on the sandy tar paper, and he was looking up at her face in the glow, and she lifted her skirt and moved the crotch of her underwear aside, and Lotto, who was always ready, who was ready at the most abstract imaginings of a girl – footprints of a sandpiper like a crotch, gallons of milk evoking boobs – was not ready at this oh-so-abrupt beginning.

Individual firms' data show that the system suffered an abrupt deterioration beginning in the summer of 2008.

That was a pointed contrast to last week, when five days of often-abrupt cancellations began after the Aug. 12 announcement that faults had been found in a shock absorber bracket on Acela trains.

And as the government begins its abrupt retrenchment, the implications, complications and confusions in the process are beginning to emerge.

At times, it feels as if such statements are offered up as prayers in the hope that we are not in fact witnessing the beginning of abrupt and sustained climate change.