Sentence examples for slightly abrupt from inspiring English sources

Slightly abrupt ad break there.

8.51pm: Debra is shown as the extremely fierce, extremely ambitious, extremely pushy and confident and slightly abrupt young woman.

Former Mali-based journalist Martin Vogl describes the army officer as a forceful, confident and charismatic man, friendly but with a slightly abrupt manner.

The (faux) shifts are well-timed, and the paddles mimic quick, if slightly abrupt gear changes.

Results showed that both glucose and glucose oligomer yields increased gradually as severity increased from 4.0 to 6.0 for all tested flow rates except for glucose oligomer yield, which showed a slightly abrupt increase around logR0 = 4.8 for a flow rate of 25 mL/minute and 62.5 mL/minute.

The collage format suits the surreal mix of roles, moods and music, but too many scenes feel off-target, whether overstretched or too abrupt, slightly lightweight or heavy-handed.

He is quiet and measured but endlessly warm, and punctuates his only slightly broken English with abrupt, staccato laughter.

The film is marred slightly by an over-abrupt ending and the irritating device of speeded-up clocks, but these are minor flaws in a film that has grown in stature over the years.

With so many Mexicans remaining in their home villages, the population of illegal immigrants in the United States stopped growing and might have slightly decreased in the last year, an abrupt shift after a decade of yearly influxes, research by demographers in the United States shows.

In the Swedish version, Noomi Rapace is almost a completely stylized figure, angular and abrupt, with a long, slightly-pointed jaw and a glare that hardly ever softens.

Margin zone up to 1.5 mm broad, concolorous with the main hymenial surface, abrupt or usually diffuse or slightly fibrillose.