Sentence examples for small and abrupt from inspiring English sources

The direction and velocity of this dragonflies are small and abrupt changes will be there in the direction.

The dancers continue to sweep across the stage with birdlike shifting patterns, exhibiting Ms. De Keersmaeker's characteristically loose, almost careless-looking movement that is nonetheless imbued with small details and abrupt, complicated changes of emphasis and direction.

Finally, DCT decomposition is used to detect abnormalities in fingerprint images containing small smear areas and abrupt breakages.

Tickets: $15 to $75. DUNNING NAMI YAMAMOTO Ms. Yamamoto, a resident artist this year at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, will present "the last word was PAPIREPOSE" -- oh, these titles -- in which, the choreographer promises, small details, subtle emotional shifts and abrupt movement deviations will create understated landscapes.

— The movement is small, abrupt and oddly graceful for an act of clumsiness.

There were exceptions: the remorseless brightness and hard geometry of Boulez's "Incise," and "The Art of Touching the Keyboard" by Judith Weir with its small, abrupt gestures and active silences.

Small but abrupt deterioration of the performances was observed, but no carbon deposition.

His replies were often curt and abrupt.

Killing people is ugly, brutal and abrupt.

Away with travel and abrupt perspectives!

Her boredom is both predictable and abrupt.