His brash personality led to internal clashes, and he and Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, agreed that it was time for him to go, according to a person briefed on the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
As it happens, the judgment was unfair – in person, Roberts is not the brash individual of caricature – but the share price went on the blink.
He comes across as being a brash, abrasive person, but that's a deliberate facade.
In print, his statements can seem bald and brash; in person, Borrell is impish and softly spoken.
But some news reports referred to her "brash" style, and one person outside the company told me "she was born on third base and acts as though she hit a triple".
In 2012, Becky Cunningham of Cheat Code Central ranked her as the fourth top ninja in video games, stating that despite her "cocky, brash, and slightly abrasive personality," Yuffie is "also a compassionate person with an impressive goal," serving "as both comic relief and unlikely hero, a seemingly self-centered sneak thief who always does the right thing in the end".
There were always two sides to the Addison persona: the loud, sometimes brash, agent, and the private person of great sensitivity, generosity and kindness.
So for him, in the brash uncouth world of politics, a person of faith could vote for a man as immoral as Trump because Trump was better equipped to rid Washington of the corruption it is plagued by today.
Don't be brash or too pointed where the person is usually shy or very sensitive.
Robin Wright is a cold, standoffish wife, Josh Brolin is a brash Texas moneyman, Emily Watson is the business person behind the climb, and Michael Kelly is Jon Krakauer, the man who wrote a book about the climb.
