| The size and abruptness of the price surge have generated macro-economic imbalances across the world. |
| The comedy is in the abruptness of the stop and the incongruousness of the change. |
| He permitted himself to think that it was the abruptness of events that bothered him. |
| Contrasting the abruptness of earthquakes is the slow drift of tectonic plates. |
| The choice of words, the degree of abruptness, formality, friendliness, and softness all may have ethical dimensions. |
| Although they had long feared for the future of their club, they were not prepared for the abruptness of the end. |
