| I therefore reply, briefly and brusquely, that I am not interested, and ring off. |
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| After clearing a very steep hill, the plane banks and dips abruptly to a tiny runway that ends brusquely on St. Jean's beach. |
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| At the beginning of the show, the dancers approached the audience with tape recorders and brusquely asked us to give our names. |
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| Drivers who grandly sweep up to the entrance of the school find themselves being brusquely waved to the side of the road. |
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| Brett said brusquely, shutting the passenger side door and hurrying around to open his own. |
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| When he said, brusquely, that he was exceedingly cross, he was given nice things to smell and eat, with kindest expressions of condolence. |
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| The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely. |
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| She watched as he stood, and walked brusquely to the closet, flicking through his wardrobe. |
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| The scorer walked up to him in a tea break and brusquely demanded to know his name. |
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| Stanley, a brusquely philistine furniture manufacturer, and Louise, his artily pretentious wife, exist in a state of permanent war. |
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| His resolution brusquely interrupted a tradition that had lasted all of 1700 years! |
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| Rabbi Shammai, understandably annoyed, brusquely dismissed the impudent questioner. |
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| Snowplows can scrape it, buildings block its sunlight, and work crews brusquely prune its branches away from electric cables. |
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| A layman will pile up all instruments he can get and will often use them so brusquely, insensately, without deploying the necessary creative and thinking processes. |
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| He stood up brusquely, crumpling the paper and tossing it at my face. |
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| Deeply saturated, brusquely painted color jazzily crisscrosses the surface, intercut with a kind of breathing space where Smith leaves the raw linen exposed. |
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| She brusquely informed him that, now the family had been discovered, the funeral would be halted. |
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| I grab the letter from her hand, a little more brusquely than necessary. |
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| Mr Dervis pulled back after Mr Cem brusquely turned down Mr Baykal's invitation to join forces under the CHP banner. |
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| Demands from opposition parties, and from some donors, for more civilian and local oversight were brusquely turned down. |
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| No, said my friend, more brusquely this time, and slid the hatch shut. There was nothing so quaint about this week's incursions. |
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| Various exotic keys are probed, first sweetly, then brusquely and insistently. |
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| There are many people who in a noble pride hold themselves aloof from all that is low and rebuff it brusquely wherever it comes to meet them. |
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| Xabi Alonso, the Spanish midfielder who has had a tournament to forget, was brusquely dispossessed. |
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| And so it was Sunday night that Cristiano Ronaldo, brusquely thwarted for much of the game, put the upstarts in their place. |
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| I simply want to draw attention to some of the gaps, some of what may be missing, when we dismiss God too brusquely. |
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| We also see the brutal foreman of mining company, arrogantly selecting the ill-paid crew of the day while brusquely warning the city boys off company property. |
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| Questions about his place in history were turned away, sometimes deftly, sometimes brusquely, at an otherwise tedious luncheon at the official Writers' Club. |
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| In October the finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, brusquely rejected a French-backed plan for a common fund to rescue banks, fearing that Germans would pay for the mistakes of bankers in other countries. |
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| Is the world set up so brusquely, that art is manifested like a force, an enigma bearing charms and evil spells, visible to those that raise their eyes and bow to power? |
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| The war brusquely interrupted the official presence of the Oblates. |
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| The government in Madrid insists that this is illegal under the constitution, which declares the indivisibility of the nation. France's constitution brusquely defines French as the language of the Republic. |
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| The flat was his domain until ten a.m., he informed her brusquely. He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude. |
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| From a temperature of 650°C the sheet is cooled brusquely by air blasted from suitably sized nozzles, arranged symmetrically at a given distance from the two surfaces. |
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| Three of these claimants indicated that the officers who interviewed them treated them very brusquely and provided no explanation about the process or how they should proceed. |
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