Sentence examples for take abrupt from inspiring English sources

A sometime librarian, Henry has been born with a genetic anomaly that causes him to take abrupt hops across time, losing his clothes in the process.

The landscape still has the character of a water route carved by a smaller stream — it meanders wildly, taking abrupt turns — and it is mesmerizing to flash through it on a speedboat.

Commenting on her travails, the craggy-voiced fish (Pierre Lebeau), the movie's philosophical voice, periodically punctuates the soundtrack of a movie whose strategy is to surprise us by taking abrupt surreal sidetracks.

A method where a rather simple approach of taking abrupt change in pixel values as a signal of blocking has been proposed in[54] and it can be implemented both in pixel and DCT domain, and a method of blockiness estimation in natural scene JPEG compressed images has been presented in[55] which was influenced by the impact of multineural channels pattern of HVS for vision sensing.

Investor confidence would plummet, capital would flee, the poor would take an abrupt beating.

In "Living Out" she decided to emphasize the situation's serious aspects by having the play take an abrupt turn from comedy to tragedy.

WITH oil prices at their present highs and Iraq at last making tentative progress towards stability, the last thing anyone wants to hear is that conditions in the Middle East could be about to take an abrupt turn for the worse.

And while Delicate Steve often sets out a (more or less) straightforward melody and cycles through it, building each time around, there's no telling when a track will take an abrupt, peculiar tangent.

But by 2007, with a sagging sugar business looking to prop up its balance sheet and a new governor looking to burnish his environmental and national credentials, the fate of the Everglades was about to take another abrupt turn.

Results simulate one leader-follower tractor pair where the leader is forced to take an abrupt turn and experiences large oscillations of its drawbar arm indicating potential payload instability.

So now, to take an abrupt turn -- what am I thankful for this Thanksgiving?