Examples of brusque

• The buoyant dance returns but a further unison passage and two brusque chords shut the movement up.

• Shortage of space may make my responses seem brusque.

• The second movement employs an authoritative rhythmic structure which is underpinned by fairly brusque and defined guitar sounds.

• The impresario's reply was equally brusque: he demanded the finished text by the next day.

• By the time it reached its brass-capped climax, reinforced by a supererogatory organ, we had more than got the point: the brusque ending was five minutes too late.

• Another point of comment rather than criticism is the sometimes offhand and brusque manner in which union officials speak to their members.

• Is it right that this important matter should be rejected in this rather brusque manner?

• In the form in which it is drafted the clause is more than brusque.