On the phone he was abrupt, rushing on deadline.
The jaggedness, the asymmetry, the abrupt and blazingly rushed lines of Powell's playing weren't signs of weakness or decline; they were marks of his increasingly complex musical vision.
The slower pace wouldn't necessarily pose a problem, except that it makes an already abrupt endgame feel more rushed.
Yet to Mr. Tucker, 38, the manic, motor-mouth comic and actor who ascended from the low-budget comedy "Friday" to the blockbuster "Rush Hour" franchise before an abrupt vanishing act, the four years that have elapsed since his last substantial screen appearance have gone by in no time at all.
No oceans can rush our tides with the abrupt absence of our treasure.
The accelerating rush of events leading to the abrupt downfall of Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, came so cluttered with markers signifying radical change that their deeper implications can be hard to discern.
The legislation, rushed through at breakneck speed, brings to an abrupt halt Mr Berlusconi's trial in Milan on charges of corruption - he is accused of bribing judges in a 1980s corporate takeover battle before he entered politics - just days before Italy takes over the EU presidency.
Presumably, that means finding a new CEO, but Baum said there's no big rush on that front, and that they won't make an "abrupt, rash decision".
In the chaotic aftermath of FBI Director James Comey's abrupt firing on Tuesday, politicians and the rest of the DC apparatus rushed about in a flurry of statements and justifications.
