abruptness

How To Use abruptness In A Sentence

• The U.S. S.ate Department Monday expressed surprise at the -- quote -- "abruptness" and said other countries face their own decisions on whether to stay or go. CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2004
• The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable.
• Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel. Archive 2009-11-01
• Contrasting the abruptness of earthquakes is the slow drift of tectonic plates.
• Although they had long feared for the future of their club, they were not prepared for the abruptness of the end.
• I was taken back by the abruptness of his answer.
• Then suddenly it turned parallel with the edge of a steep-walled gap, which came without warning, like the ha-ha of an English park, —turned with an unexpected abruptness. The Sayers of the Law
• The abruptness of the ending raises the question of whether this was where the script was going from the beginning, or whether screenwriter Steven Katz felt that there was nothing else left to do.
• Even in these days of rapid technological change, the abruptness of this transition was unusual.
• Major resentments in the fleet flare up without the need for groundwork or foreshadowing, and go silent with equal abruptness. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica