Sentence examples for brusque you from inspiring English sources
"Good God! Are you out of your mind?" wails Mr Mitchell's version, while Mr Verity's is similarly brusque: "You are mad!
They are respectful of each other, but sometimes brusque; you wonder how hard Shirley O'Loughlin, their cheerful manager, has to work to keep things smooth.
Your product can be great, but if your support line comes across as rude and brusque you're going to experience problems trying to retain customers.
For example, if you're in Germany working with team members in India, you might learn during a site visit that Indian team members see German colleagues as brusque, but you also gain a rich experience of the open, friendly interactions that take place in the India office.
As a result, it begins to make more sense that they would interpret Germans' responses as brusque, so you now have a better understanding of how your behaviors in Germany are viewed by your team members in India.
She'll break your arm with a door, hit you in the head with a flying clock radio, pin you to the floor, demand you remove your animal-head mask and then take you downtown for a quite brusque interrogation – all before you've moaned that she hasn't even read you your rights yet.
All these qualms about when you should and shouldn't be naked, whether it's time to be wearing a towel or take the towel off, what's up with the brusque masseurs, do you pay extra for this or that, and all the other steamy ambiguities of how it works and what's appropriate behavior.
The iPhone app now gives you a brusque, "We will securely upload your contacts to help you find friends and suggest users to follow on Twitter" notification when you try to find friends, buried deep under the '#Discover' tab (which I'll elaborate on in a moment).
Try to imagine what that's like before you're brusque or uncaring to someone who is less fortunate than you.
The police director is plain-spoken or brusque, depending on whom you ask, and has faced other troubles since coming to Newark.
King Juan Carlos of Spain got it right when he recently interrupted Chávez's trademark verbal diarrhea with a brusque: "Why don't you just shut up?" Venezuelans should watch that regal routine on YouTube — it's even been set to music — and follow suit on Sunday.
