Sentence examples for bit brusque from inspiring English sources
But you can see that the comma-less versions are no-nonsense and a bit brusque.
Eschewing the pejorative noodle and embracing brevity, the O.E.D. now defines it as "a complete idiot," which I find a bit brusque.
His nurse Sheila – "bright and sparky … a bit brusque, not fluffy" – keeps him sane by encouraging him to play an A to Z game, associating parts of his body with a memory.
Sophie is a dour young woman, a bit brusque but surpassingly efficient and capable, a real self-starter.
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So maybe I'll keep it up for a year". Marcias's posts are funny, blunt, and a little bit brusque, but she's also telling a love story.
The nation's most enduring symbol of plodding big-government-at-its-worst is striving mightily to reinvent its image: a bit less brusque polyester bureaucracy, a bit more rugged Pony Express, galloping fearlessly onto the 21st-century information superhighway.
Jill: That's a bit too, well, brusque Arthur.
It was touching to see the Met's brusque boss looking a bit awkward and overwhelmed.
But Mr. Summers, described simply as "a large man" in script notes, comes off in the film as arrogant, brusque and pompous - a bit like his reputation in Washington.
The bustle and business of a court is enjoyably present in a production that features wimples, trumpets and armour, some fairly camp singing and a few ranty bits round the edges: would Nigel Lindsay's terrifyingly brusque Bolingbroke really win hearts to become the people's king?
