But just as Mr Erez, a brusque businessman-turned-politician from the mainly Kurdish province of Van, thought he was in sight of success, in stepped Tansu Ciller, the woman who leads the conservative True Path party from which Mr Erez had earlier defected.
Union rules once bent for the company suddenly became strict; old contractor friends turned brusque on the phone.
Three string quartets are melodious, dramatic, brusque, and dreamy in turn.
Its tones change swiftly, almost imperceptibly: they are in turn ironical, impertinent, brusque, laconic, eloquent, compassionate, melancholy, or reflective.
Warner, a countrywoman by nature, brought up in Harrow, where her father taught history, sent homely recipes for raspberry-leaf tea to Mrs. Maxwell when she was pregnant; Maxwell in turn did his brusque best to console her as Valentine, relatively young, incorrigibly healthy and sturdy, was struck down by cancer after 39 happily shared years.
There's the stink of moral rot coming off the character played by Mr. Sutherland, who has lately become a master at playing brusque, manipulative father figures; his turn as the coach in "Without Limits" ranks among the best work of his career, and his performance in "Panic" is on a similar level.
Common to the team is a sense of sacrifice: Cho is brusque with Summer, the prostitute-turned-informant for whom he clearly has the hots, because he's afraid to risk her safety (S4, ep14).
A part of me feared that they would answer with happy palliatives and brusque monologues about how everything turned out great, peachy, fabulous — and I would know that underneath those rushed narratives would be the lingering dark feelings of inadequacy, despair and self-doubt.
Schubert wasn't shy to acknowledge the influence – he quotes the Ode to Joy in his last movement – and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra turned to earlier, more brusque Beethoven to set up this performance.
Mr. Terracciano and Mr. Remondi might counterbalance Mr. Lord, the brusque and strong-willed man credited with turning Sallie Mae into the nation's largest student lender.
Whether or not the city board that handles such matters would have granted the University Club's request without complication is a matter of dispute, but, in the event, Cianci intervened and in a brusque and bullying manner told his appointees to turn the club down.
