The ambassador, she wrote, sounded "abrupt and confident and stern".
Although Hong Kong's ultimatum sounds abrupt, few people fault the government for imposing it.
That rhetorical jump might have sounded abrupt to a passerby, but to the crowd it made perfect sense.
"It's a privilege for me to be with people who believe that Jesus Christ is their personal savior and who are politically conservative," Grassley said, "And it's a privilege to get to speak to you about the virtues of a strong energy policy". That rhetorical jump might have sounded abrupt to a passerby, but to the crowd it made perfect sense.
Words are hacked together, things aren't pronounced correctly, and everything sounds abrupt.
Jim Black, best known these days for his work with Dave Douglas and Tim Berne, is a clattering drummer who puts considerable technique into making jazz rhythms sound strange: abrupt and imbalanced, with rude slaps on his dry, papery-sounding cymbals.
If you can get past the murky sound and abrupt edits, it's worth hearing for Parker's solos and the insistent drumming of Roy Haynes.
(Scott) 'ORPHAN' (R, 2 00) A dopey "boo" movie -- as in creaking sound plus abrupt visual cut equals "boo!" -- with a comically contrived twist.
"Orphan," by contrast, comes in at a padded 2 hours 2 minutes, which is absurd for a dopey "boo" movie — as in creaking sound plus abrupt visual cut equals "boo!" — with a comically contrived premise.
(The b of "brother" sounds more abrupt).
