Sentence examples for curt manner from inspiring English sources
Everything about her — her omnipresent cellphone, her crisply tailored blazers, her trim physique and curt manner — can seem like a calculated rebuke to her anarchic dad.
"When I called the consulate, the woman said, in a very curt manner, 'Why are you coming to our country?' And that was the worst thing she could have said.
Thinking back on his curt manner, the son knew that it was right that he hadn't been there when his father died - those two old women were far better company than he would have been.
David Straithairn portrays the toughly laconic newsman with tremendous control and reserve, a granite block of unsmiling integrity with a curt manner of speaking, worlds away from modern TV presenting.
However, his abrasive and at times curt manner gave off an air of arrogance that was not a fair reflection of the man or his methods.
Each time the son went to his father his manner was curt and his father noticed it.
She had a curt and strange bedside manner and stuck things in me without warning, barely talking to me.
Mr. Gerstner's manner was formal, sometimes curt; his brilliance was obvious, his comments concise, and he led from the front.
The world observed his grief-stricken face and businesslike manner, and heard his curt "lock the doors" command that signaled it was time to give up hope for a safe return and to flip open the notebooks laying out procedures for shuttle disasters.
