Sentence examples for little abrupt from inspiring English sources

But there were also moments when smooth steps were contrasted with little abrupt motions.

Occasionally, transitions can be a little abrupt, and a couple of times continuity questions stopped me.

The driving impulses of Ms. Murthy's dancing were a little abrupt sometimes.

This is a good thing, but also makes things feel a little abrupt.

"I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay," he once confessed.

Satel and Dr. Lilienfeld's polemic ultimately seems a little abrupt and shortsighted to a reader who has watched a world-class philosopher gaze with eager intensity at the brain and find in it an infinite series of mirrored selves.

"A little bit abrupt," Mark Sanchez said, and that was how it felt: a three-way quarterback competition winnowed to two in mid-May, before training camp, before organized team activities begin next week — and not by the Jets' doing.

Then there's those who are a little less abrupt with their skills – like Graham Coxon's gawky grunge on Coffee and TV or anything Stephen Malkmus or St Vincent have put their spindly fingers to.

As Hurricane Walaka recently demonstrated, sometimes this process is a little more abrupt than usual: this Category Five beast annihilated an island within Hawaii's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument essentially overnight.

"It was maybe a little more abrupt than normal, but I feel like the growing pains have been pretty similar to what most faculty experience [after] postdocs," he says.

Early on, Josh Duhamel was able to give just enough hints of secretive depth to Milt Chamberlain, his too-good-to-be-true FBI agent, but the writing for Russ Agnew Dean Winterss), the Battle Creek cop he's paired with, could make the Midwestern law enforcement officer a little too abrupt and combative at times.