brusquer

Indeed, the Democratic party's most honest moment Tuesday night came not in Webb's brusque words but in the Democrats' brusquer body language.

Public servant v. Military Commander Glenn Greenwald 2007

Indeed, the Democratic party's most honest moment Tuesday night came not in Webb's brusque words but in the Democrats' brusquer body language.

Archive 2007-01-01 Glenn Greenwald 2007

An associated question is why Israeli Jews are so much brusquer than American Jews, even New Yorkers.

Archive 2005-10-16 Steve Sailer 2005

An associated question is why Israeli Jews are so much brusquer than American Jews, even New Yorkers.

Does Islam make its adherents violent? Steve Sailer 2005

Or were the "Oriental" Jews who came to Israel from Islamic countries brusquer than the Ashkenazim from Europe?

Does Islam make its adherents violent? Steve Sailer 2005

Or were the "Oriental" Jews who came to Israel from Islamic countries brusquer than the Ashkenazim from Europe?

Archive 2005-10-16 Steve Sailer 2005

Georgina, dumpier and still brusquer than Marina, the eldest son, a bank-clerk who was something of a dandy and did not waste civility on little girls; and lastly there were two boys, slightly younger than Laura, black-haired, pug-nosed, pugnacious little creatures, who stood in awe of their father, and were all the wilder when not under his eye.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

It was as if from the wide living room on the first level a hand had moved slowly, shaping the next steps by a sustained touch, then had stopped, had continued in separate movements, each shorter, brusquer, and had ended, torn off, remaining somewhere in the sky.

The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943

Her methods would become something much brusquer and more direct.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 Various 1898

Olive's engagement had been broken off by too violent means, and nothing was more against her nature than (to use her own expression) _brusquer les choses_.

Muslin 1892