The world in whose workings he had immersed himself abruptly seemed to have turned on him.
And then maybe my default-mode network shut down for a second, or maybe I had a surge of serotonin, but for whatever reason the whole thing abruptly seemed hilarious, fascinating, perfect.
So the art world was taken aback last month when, on the eve of the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a $56 million addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for which he chose the architect and paid the bill, Mr. Broad abruptly seemed to undermine his own cause.
After a few beats, he dresses, presumably to get a doctor, but, as abruptly, Anne seems to return to normal.
But then, abruptly it seemed, the funny fat guy somehow landed the lead in Guardians Of The Galaxy.
It did this by reversing my sense of Islam as a topic of study: rather abruptly, Islam seemed to be scrutinizing me.
It's going to be — PREMINGER (getting up abruptly, without seeming to be rude, and dispensing with elaborate goodbyes as well as hellos): Best way to see you would be a test.
At that moment, her nostalgia seems abruptly to clear and she becomes caught up in the immediacy of an authentic encounter with nature.
The father's arrival ratchets up the tensions, and the story ends abruptly on what seems to be the threshold of violence.
And yet he embodied that journey - in his steely, charming, regal, ruthless, disarming way - and with his death this country seems abruptly cut adrift from its heroic, agonising, brutal, miraculous past - and the long walk to freedom that Mr Mandela lived and personified.
