As a sixteen-year-old, Seavey, employing what he described as a "very forward and abrupt" style, won a national wrestling championship in his weight class (a hundred and twenty-five pounds).
Finding well-travelled employees is especially important if you need people familiar with the fine art of cross-border communication, for example the abrupt style common in northern Europe, the polite banter of the UK, or the straight-to-business approach in the US.
The poems in "Ariel" have a harder, more abrupt freehand style than those in her first book, "The Colossus".
Jim Slater complained, like many others over the years, of Keith's abrupt, domineering style, but in this case it saved him from what could have been a disastrous mess.
Her illustrations are composed in the abrupt lackadaisical style of a children's drawing but explore very adult issues and scenarios.
While his abrupt, direct writing style has gone in and out of fashion, many of his works remain in the American canon: "A Farewell to Arms," "The Sun Also Rises," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Old Man and the Sea".
He also made cartoons, bronze busts and statues, and videos, all the while executing abrupt shifts in style and subject that made it hard to take stock.
If Rome was not built in a day, it is unlikely that any abrupt change in style is going to take effect immediately.
You were less aware than usual of the composer's abrupt shifts — of style, dynamics, tempo — not because those shifts weren't present but because they occurred so seamlessly.
Moreover, we find it easier than earlier audiences and critics to accept the mixture of expressionism, melodrama and German romanticism, to go along with the abrupt switches in style and to accept the apparent conflict of ideological positions.
Robert Schumann, at an early age, devoured Hoffmann's stories — "One hardly dares to breathe while reading Hoffmann," he reported — and, in 1838, wrote a cycle of eight piano pieces titled "Kreisleriana," whose abrupt transitions of style and mood echo both the Kapellmeister's personality and Hoffmann's disjunct way of telling his story.
