Sentence examples for too brusque from inspiring English sources

Even those encounters rarely get too brusque.

"Jeremy thought it was too brusque," he says.

Everyone was embarrassingly bad — too brusque, too convoluted, talked too much.

At the start, moments before Juliet is presented to her suitor Paris (performed by a much too brusque Sascha Radetsky), Ms. Osipova was a bundle of playful, nervous energy, nearly flying across the stage in coupé jeté en tournant jumps.

But aside from tax savings, Mr. Putin suggested that French officials were too brusque in their response to Mr. Depardieu's complaints and that he might find that Russians simply understand him better as an artist.

In the end, they decided on a brown linen jacket, hardly worn — Sylvia had considered it to be a mistake for herself, the style too brusque — and a pair of tailored tan pants and a cream-colored silk shirt.

Apparently aware of the public relations impact of his all-too-brusque reply, he hastened to add that as a child he treasured a stuffed panda.

Jill: That's a bit too, well, brusque Arthur.

So the challenge for the United States lies in how best to find a balance between the inevitability of its dominance for the foreseeable future and the fact that too open or brusque an expression of this dominance alienates wide swaths of the world.

It is still remembered with a shudder by aging former draftees because it was all too soon followed by a brusque drill sergeant's Listen up!, a gruffism since adopted by football coaches.

Abramson had previously been the paper's managing editor, and many in the newsroom considered her to be intimidating and brusque; she was too remote and, they thought, slightly similar to an earlier executive editor, the talented but volcanic Howell Raines, who had also begun the job right after Labor Day, in 2001.