The phrase "abrupt passage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or unexpected transition in a text, speech, or narrative.
Example: "The author’s abrupt passage from a lighthearted tone to a serious subject caught the readers off guard."
Alternatives: "sudden transition" or "sharp shift".
Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer — I do not particularly view that as mountaineering". Like Lindbergh, Sir Edmund was a gangling, unpretentious and improbable hero, uncomfortable at first with the abrupt passage from obscurity to dazzling fame.
Some union leaders interviewed at the Madison Labor Temple said the abrupt passage could lead to strikes.
The House will have time to thoroughly judge the final bill, Slaughter said, promising that there would be no repeat of the abrupt passage of climate change legislation late on the night immediately before the July 4 recess.
Abrupt passages of brushwork impinge, revealing, as do the combines, Mr. Rauschenberg's persisting affinity for Abstract Expressionist paint handling.
The radicalism of the music comes from its abrupt discontinuities: passages of thick, buzzing chords for high strings give way to fleeting bucolic episodes for mellow winds and low strings; elegiac themes start to lull you, until you realize how weirdly asymmetrical the phrases are.
While the derivative (dynamic) control displays an approximately linear decline (58), which starts already at glucose levels well within the limits of normalcy (59), the proportional (static) control is characterized by a somewhat abrupt fall in the passage from impaired glucose regulation to overt diabetes (58, 60).
A Charlap signature is the abrupt interruption of a sedate passage with an explosive percussive burst that has the glistening texture of sunlight on a snowfield.
From the opening of the overture, a quizzical passage in which abrupt foursquare phrases are grimly asserted and then hauntingly echoed, the music is continuously captivating.
Eventually short, abrupt phrases break out into passages that sound like fractured jazz piercing through fog.
For some, the new regulation, requiring a written test on the rules of the road, came as an abrupt suspension of a rite of passage from childhood to a teenage world of self-propulsion, independence, romance and cool.
This transition was abrupt.
