Sentence examples similar to an abrupt answer from inspiring English sources

Dr. Bierenbaum responded with "the same abrupt answer," according to the report.

Considering that this is the first time Abdi has ever been involved in something like this, one might expect him to be nervous in an interview and possibly give short or abrupt answers, which would have been totally understandable.

I was thrown from the outset: his first words when I answered were an abrupt "What kind of cake?," which I asked him to repeat, not knowing who was calling.

When she doesn't want to answer a question, her fluid chattiness comes to an abrupt halt.

Brad Wray (2011, 42f) answers that there is no reason that a revolution need be an abrupt event.

The answers became shorter, terser and tenser and the interview was brought to an abrupt end after one question too many.

Presence of explicit knowledge (insight) after sleep was determined from NRT task performance by an abrupt reaction time (RT) decrease and a short-cut in sequential responding (Fig. 1A) and was confirmed by answers in the post-experimental questionnaire.

Such an abrupt reversal smacks of desperation.

Normally, an abrupt blink is produced.

It wasn't an abrupt change.

The admission was an abrupt about-face.