Why the seemingly abrupt change of heart?
The transition from student lawyer to trainee lawyer can mean an abrupt change of pace.
Even by the high-octane standards of US politics, it was a breathtakingly abrupt change of gear.
In a delightfully abrupt change of pace, the last two pictures in this show seem to burst into light.
Rippon has an "abrupt" change of heart over the planned programme, according to Newsnight reporter Liz McKean.
The aircraft was descending steadily, and there had been no abrupt change of speed, altitude or direction.
But an experience in a drama course he was taking on the side prompted an abrupt change of plan.
The time at which the abrupt change of potential toward a new process takes place is termed the transition time.
Modern Germans, it seems, are prepared to put up with a great deal before endorsing an abrupt change of direction.
Privately, even some of the religious and conservative groups that had lobbied against it were surprised, albeit delighted, by its abrupt change of fortune.
Just as we are staring in shock at the abrupt change of focus, the poem drags us back to the academic question.
