Some New Yorkers remember how brusque the salesmen could be.
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"I think the generational change was very brusque," Messi said.
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The voice that answered the call at the hospital was brusque.
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His management style has remained brusque, current State Department officials say.
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Liu speaks in a raspy voice, and his demeanor is brusque.
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"Brusque, bordering on rude sometimes," another longtime admin, Floquenbeam, told BuzzFeed News.
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"She became very closed-off and brusque," Carson recalled of the manager.
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Had blunt, bombastic, boisterous and brusque billionaire Donald Trump slain another sacred cow?
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The officer was a scalded blonde with a tight ponytail, brusque, ex-military.
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The migrants also said certain workers were brusque and harsh with the children.
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He could be brusque and imperious one moment, charming and conspiratorial the next.
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One key reason for Mr. Xi's brusque self-confidence is his family history.
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It was a brusque re-entry after seven days of living a dream.
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I knocked on the front door, and a brusque man in his 60s answered.
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Winningham renders madness with the brusque straightforwardness and lopsided wisdom of a Shakespearean fool.
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Although she was generous with time, advice and financial support, she could be brusque.
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She had two minutes, the voice told her, a little brusque but clearly interested.
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A story line involving a brusque Lyft driver (Waleed Zuaiter) plays like convenient filler.
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And the team's leader, a brusque and manipulative psychologist, has ulterior motives for her crew.
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Anywhere other than Belarus, the rigid formality and brusque service would have seemed painfully Soviet.
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While the officials that greet us are brusque and a little annoyed, it doesn't matter.
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But it takes a brusque request from the Secret Service to give her new purpose.
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But there was a catch: They also were measurably numbed to intrusive or brusque touches.
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The futuristic Amazon Go faces the city's notoriously brusque customers, not to mention its shoplifters.
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The newly brusque force and cold lewdness she brought on Tuesday was startling and welcome.
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Harris has the brusque manners of a prosecutor and the dishonesty of a defense attorney.
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Tony is amiable enough, but awkward around people — brusque to the postman and helpless around Susie.
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At first he seemed like many of the war-hardened soldiers I had met there. Brusque.
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After some brusque exchanges, he set off on a sort of defiant jog through the crowd.
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More often than not, it was his brusque attitude that made more enemies than his policies.
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" Kagan's reply was brusque: "You know, you were right—you should not have asked me that.
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That convenient fiction has been undermined by Mr. Tusk's brusque remarks, making it harder for Mrs.
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And one other: a brusque, grouchy heroine whose issues go beyond cold nights and long winters.
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Il se dit déconcerté par le brusque revirement culturel en France et par sa chute précipitée.
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The jury, led by Tai, also came after him for the brusque way he sometimes treated them.
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In the concertos, too, there were nothing blaring or brusque, no sense of the Classical as curt.
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But if the person you're being brusque with is a doctor, there's a lot more at stake.
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Pyongyang's latest display of aggression on Tuesday elicited a brusque, three-sentence statement from the State Department.
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He avoided interaction with many of the people around him, and his manner was direct and brusque.
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He is a tea party activist with a brusque, abrasive manner that offends a lot of voters.
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As co-founders, Nikki and Darryl field questions, and their brusque, businesslike tones dominate the group's chatter.
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Tears welled in her eyes as I explained the diagnosis, and I worried I'd been too brusque.
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" True to form for the brusque Rosa, the disclosure came in two sentences: "I'm dating a woman.
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They admired in each other a brusque self-assurance and artless candor that others often perceived as arrogant.
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An Uber representative just told her to cancel her credit cards and change her password, which felt brusque.
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Biden's words were a comfort to delegates who find the president's brusque foreign policy stance hard to like.
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It was more brusque than something from Messi, more obviously athletic and less serene than a Messi creation.
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Avoid a brusque confrontation with him: Instead of saying, "Stop this nonsense with celebrities," try to be gentle.
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He became brusque when officials couldn't tell him, for example, how many job-training graduates in Greenville, Miss.
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When asked about the investigations, the mayor has typically been brusque in his replies, saying little, if anything.
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Merman's clarion voice, brusque style and ha-cha-cha exuberance made her musical theater's indispensable star for decades.
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The pioneering band walked the line between brusque sentimentality and uplifting hooks, making them emo's first pop emissaries.
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In that light, the sometimes brusque nature of the Hackintosh community is understandable, beyond people being sick of newbies.
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Outspoken yet intensely private, Philip developed a reputation for brusque comments and often headline-grabbing remarks during ceremonial events.
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Bulgarians talk to one another in the same brusque way that most people currently talk to their digital assistants.
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Washington foreign policy elites will be horrified with his brusque treatment of fellow leaders and trashing of diplomatic protocol.
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A self-described "granola," Nelson recalls her brusque introduction to the gendered world of flight-attendant work at United.
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His tone was brusque at times, accusing the Democrats of fanning hysteria and overstating the effects of the bills.
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Italian historian Roberto de Mattei said the Palm Sunday attacks should be "a brusque reality check for Pope Francis".
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While your sister-in-law was brusque and failed to follow through, Miss Manners does not condemn the sentiment.
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Despite his association with the science of happiness, Seligman is by his own admission brusque, dismissive, and a grouch.
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Talk of her mother instantly darkens Gypsy's mood, much faster than any of the more brusque comments from Nick's mom.
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She has a short, Jean Seberg hairdo and elfin features, but her manner is serious and no-nonsense, occasionally brusque.
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Outspoken yet intensely private, Philip developed a reputation for brusque comments and often headline-grabbing verbal gaffes during ceremonial events.
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Large and somewhat brusque, Barker was a forty-two-year-old psychiatrist with a keen interest in esoteric mental conditions.
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He might ace his medical boards, but have to carefully rehearse his bedside manner to avoid seeming brusque or uncaring.
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While still capturing Curry's brusque impatience, the album's second half is more diffuse, with little skits and lighter pop beats.
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I called out to the driver in a tone that was probably a bit of more brusque than I intended.
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Why does Trump, the brusque, tell-it-like-it-is leader, turn into a pussycat when it comes to Putin?
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Some people, asked to comment about the events of the previous day, declined with a brusque shake of the head.
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Connie's brusque attitude and sugar addiction attempt to push her in the direction of a Lethal Weapon-esque self-destructive cop.
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Nielsen is described in the article as "brusque" and "no-nonsense," and in charge of wrangling aides in Trump's outer circle.
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Outspoken, irascible and intensely private, Philip, a Greek-born former naval officer, has a reputation for brusque comments and occasional gaffes.
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When Andrew visits an escort agency, its brusque manager wastes no time in informing Andrew about the customers' preferences — another rejection.
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His colleagues at UBS were awe-struck by Mr. Orcel's rainmaking but were less impressed with his sometimes-brusque management style.
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"It is not cool," Ms. Ryan, who encountered brusque treatment herself at a White House press briefing, said in an interview.
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Often brusque in manner, outwardly self-assured and iron-willed, Ben-Gurion poured his innermost emotions into his diaries and letters.
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The Vietnamese-American actress Hong Chau, who has a supporting role as a brusque refugee in "Downsizing," could get a nod.
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A brusque German consular attache shouldered his way down platform 32 when the train from Ogdensburg pulled in at 6:45 a.m.
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Outspoken, irascible and intensely private, Philip developed a reputation for occasional brusque and sometimes politically incorrect comments at ceremonial events he attended.
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The British parents are in extremis, devastated and desperate in an alien environment, and frustrated by sympathetic but brusque law enforcement personnel.
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His own brusque brushwork, which sometimes overwhelms his images, extends it to new, radical extremes, and is a cornerstone of his greatness.
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Men seemingly realized that openly brusque behavior and using people purely for sex wasn't working anymore, and instead opted for gentler tactics.
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For that matter, her foil Mr. Darcy was an anti-hero well before his time, all brusque, dismissive demeanor and misunderstood soft heart.
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Inside you'll find a clean restaurant with brusque service serving some of the best Sichuan and Xian cuisine available in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Not just the Twitter spat with Mexico's President, not just his apparently brusque style with Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, but his unconventional secrecy.
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Copying Ivanka Trump, the Russian responded in a final brusque message, in which he questioned Cohen's authority to make decisions for the Trump Organization.
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Brusque foreign investigators in cargo pants and Ethiopians in suits or reflective vests wave away questions from reporters on how their inquiries are progressing.
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In rare cases when a patient doesn't turn up, or when a passenger's family is brusque, Roth does his best to smooth things over.
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For all his brusque qualities, Icahn is an engaging interlocutor, his voice a raspy staccato, his accent a time capsule of old New York.
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But his brusque manner and the perception that he is not making the same sacrifices that he asks of the bankers have created tension.
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In 2006, the literature professor Walter Benn Michaels published a brusque polemic, " The Trouble with Diversity ," which depicted the whole concept as profoundly conservative.
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"DON GIOVANNI" — "FINCH'HAN DAL VINO" For once, Don Giovanni's "Champagne Aria" isn't a brash, brusque tumble but a sly, elegant declaration, tinged with bitterness.
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He was adept at solving problems and at rallying workers, but he was brusque and obsessive, prone to belittle teammates who disagreed with him.
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Bush was a little brusque, who cared, as long as she showed up at your charity event, raising your social cachet into the stratosphere?
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This brusque and sinewy Lamb has no problem standing up to Murdoch's lion — or rather fox, since Mr. Carvel's interpretation has a vulpine slyness.
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He was too much of a pragmatist for his party's progressive wing, too self-focused for party leaders and too brusque for nearly everyone.
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Likewise, Mr. Trump has to worry about whether his brusque treatment of his longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, might come back to hurt him.
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Lazzaro is bossed around by everyone — his name is usually followed by a brusque order to fix, clean or fetch something — and submits uncomplainingly.
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Maggie is brusque and antisocial, and she carries her own weight in pain and doubt; the interplay between her and sunny Kai is delightful.
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But his mannerisms and his brusque tone seem to be a riff on a blustery Fox News type like Bill O'Reilly or Jeanine Pirro.
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As many have and will point out, Cam's brusque dealings with those questions was the sort of thing Bill Belichick is typically celebrated for.
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Over his career, the 6-foot-3 Mr. Cohn has been known for a brusque and intimidating presence, reportedly looming over traders at their desks.
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It executed the political will of the Kremlin in the most rough and brusque way, often not taking into consideration the intricacies of human rights.
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A Monster Calls stars Felicity Jones as Conor's mother; Sigourney Weaver as his brusque, icy grandmother; and Liam Neeson as the voice of the monster.
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The idealized conception of Marshall's years on the court underpins Brookhiser's brusque dismissal of Franklin Roosevelt's controversial and ultimately successful court-packing proposal in 1937.
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Her voice sounds both guileless and cutting; she can be tough, sympathetic, vulnerable or brusque, bouncing syncopated syllables against tracks that often stay cannily unadorned.
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The head of the airport, a brusque, pudgy official in traditional dress, met us at the gangway and ushered us through the bureaucracy within minutes.
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Over his career, the 6-foot-3 Mr. Cohn has been known for a brusque and intimidating presence, reportedly looming over traders at their desks.
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He perfectly rendered the brusque kiss the young engineer bestows on his fiancée, midlocomotive chase, and the confused triumph when Keaton inadvertently spears a Union sniper.
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It has brusque bass lines and locomotive drums, with electric guitar churning and pushing and erupting into feedback behind the quivering intensity of Jehnny Beth's voice.
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Here it's Dr. Sabine Lommers (Claudia Black), a brusque federal something-or-other who cordons off part of the city and takes input from no one.
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Although in conversation he is given to dad jokes and puns, he can become opinionated, brusque, and disapproving when he sits at a computer with Sanjay.
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He admires the brusque Silicon Valley culture and is trying to encourage it in France, visiting technology salons in preference to France's ailing and neglected hinterlands.
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On Wall Street, Mr. Cohn is known for his brusque style, though that has softened as he has taken on more leadership responsibility at the firm.
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While he can be a brusque jerk, there's pathos to his performance as he becomes increasingly desperate, lashing out at his guests or at various resentments.
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I can maybe imagine them dancing "Sounddance" (1975), which the Ballet de Lorraine performed here in February, but with quite different inflections — less elegant, more brusque.
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Aden is an especially charming hero, too, a brusque and self-reliant Scotsman who's still self-aware enough to neither deny nor fight his romantic feelings.
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Eventually, I did, at last, find someone who didn't tell me (in the usual brusque and patronizing tone) that anxiety is just a part of life.
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West routinely assembles motley creative brain trusts, and the brusque, Moroccan-born, Bronx rapper French Montana and the slick Canadian singer the Weeknd were there, too.
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" Francis' trip to Chile in mid-January was overshadowed by his brusque remarks to a Chilean reporter that the claims against Bishop Barros amounted to "slander.
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But the power of the cutouts is less about narrative than materiality and form: totemic presences conjured by brusque but beautiful painted surfaces and towering scale.
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But according to the White House, the brusque response came as McGahn reached out to each Senate Judiciary Committee member to discuss the Supreme Court confirmation process.
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The islanders are brusque like I remember, but quicker to smile, their working habits still relaxed but markedly more efficient and egalitarian in their distribution of labor.
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Its conclusion constitutes another brusque tonal shift, as Tom inexplicably makes a quick transition from Wong's grief as a widower to the painter's current respect and acclaim.
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WOW HERE'S SOME GOOD NEWS FOR ANYONE WHO THOUGHT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE'S ALL-CAPS DATA BLASTS WERE A LITTLE BRUSQUE IN THIS LOWERCASE-FRIENDLY INTERNET AGE.
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" And in Trump, who has alienated large blocs of voters with his brusque approach and incendiary statements, Pelosi said Democrats have "the gift that keeps on giving.
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Maybe they resented being lectured about their profession by a non-lawyer; maybe they just didn't like this guy with the fancy suit and brusque self-confidence.
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Quiet, occasionally brusque and wary of media attention, Patel prefers to engage with only a small group he is comfortable with, besides the bank's governor, officials say.
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Though Mr. Gleason's portrayal of Ralph could be brusque, Mr. McGrath said his version tries to find a sympathetic side underneath the bombast and the fat suit.
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Even without that cudgel, the firm can cut back equity partner compensation as much as 25 percent annually — a brusque sign that it is time to leave.
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"He is brusque and is a demanding boss, but he inspires loyalty from those who make it, and shows great loyalty as well," said one former staffer.
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His five-year term was expiring; these are often renewed but his was not, and in a manner so brusque that the usually circumspect German publicly complained.
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Most of Generation Z, however, knows her best from Miss Congeniality, Sweet Home Alabama, and as Enid Frick, Carrie Bradshaw's brusque Vogue editor on Sex and the City.
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I'm brusque and bossy, and from what I gather, finding a friend requires at least an introductory period of being nice, which I am completely uninterested in faking.
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Readers largely agreed that the famed Brooklyn restaurant's steaks have been on a long decline and that the service, once brusque but charming, is just off-putting now.
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He will act as a senior adviser to Johnson, an appointment which risks a backlash from some lawmakers who dislike his brusque manner and seeming disregard for parliament.
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Biographies of Mr. Bloomberg, along with contemporary news reports, have described the company in those days as a hotbed of brusque talk that was often demeaning to women.
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It isn't style; I admire his direct and even brusque approach, and his willingness to eviscerate untouchable icons that have been foisted upon us by the intolerant left.
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Gjelina: An early adopter of the rustic chic aesthetic, Gjelina is known for brusque service (don't even think about asking for any substitutions) and incredible California-Italian cuisine.
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Vuohensilta let me ask him a few questions, though his answers were so brusque that I felt as though he'd compressed them in the hydraulic press as well.
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Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist who has worked in the United States and knows many of the decision-makers, replaced the cerebral but brusque Stéphane Dion as foreign minister.
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It must be fairly demoralising to be given a brief window of access to a manager, only to receive glib responses and perhaps even a brusque and resentful rebuff.
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There's variety in the songs, and obvious influences from Chuck Berry to the Who, but it's Mr. Young's brusque, relentless, nose-to-the-grindstone propulsion that defines AC/DC.
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At times, dancers hurtle across the stage with brusque violence, stop, behave informally; yet enough multiple geometries and dance constructions occur to show the formal design behind such disorder.
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Difficult to hear over the music, the newcomer introduced himself as someone involved in the theater's design and gave a brief, brusque lecture on the challenges of its construction.
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Ilfenesh Hadera's Kay Daniels in "Deception" and Bojana Novakovic's Lizzie Needham in "Instinct" are both standard-issue brusque, uptight, damaged cops and straight women to their more theatrical partners.
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This week I have talked to a lot of people who know Mr. Musk, including those who adore him and those who have had it with his brusque intensity.
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But the brusque and opinionated Bolton is as loved in some quarters for his uncompromising conservativism as he is loathed in others -- particularly among diplomats -- for his views and style.
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The speech to NATO was memorable, as was his brusque, push-aside of the leader of Montenegro to make his way to the front of a pack of world leaders.
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Brusque and tempestuous, often sparring with managers and players, he put a formidable stamp on the team as it won 11 pennants and seven World Series championships and grew rich.
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In the shadowy "The Visit by Lamplight," two women sit, shrouded in inky ominousness, rendered with paint handling so uncharacteristically brusque it recalls Walter Sickert, the British painter of disquiet.
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The investigators were "quite forceful and brusque" and "rattled a few people," Mr. van Beurden told the finance chief at the time, Simon Henry, when Mr. Henry returned his call.
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Such a brusque response should offer some solace to China's government, which has been trying for nearly two decades to crush Falun Gong, a movement that once enjoyed widespread mainstream acceptance.
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"SAY CONDOLENCES TO HUGH HEFNER.." one user demanded on an unrelated post, which may have been well-meaning, but brusque messages can be hard to read during a period of grieving.
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The servers, who once were charmingly brusque, now give the strong impression that these endless demands for food and drink are all that's standing between them and a hard-earned nap.
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And the scene plays out exactly as you expect: Veronica is hurt and wounded, Archie is a brusque asshole, and she starts to sadly gather her things and leave the house.
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His reputation as an outspoken and brusque politician has even made it into his Senate campaign slogan, "A senator with guts," which also doubles as the URL of his campaign site.
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Their brusque artlessness and soul-deep hokeyness honestly makes them difficult to watch for more than a few minutes, and again I say this as a pretty big Alicia Witt fan.
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Last year, they were featured on the popular pitch show "Shark Tank," where they landed a deal from judge Kevin O'Leary (known sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful, due to his brusque style).
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A group interview on CNN on Tuesday night featured Trump, his wife, Melania, daughter Ivanka and sons Eric and Donald Jr., and showed a more personal side to the often-brusque businessman.
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Outspoken, irascible and intensely private, Philip, a Greek-born former naval officer, developed a reputation for brusque comments and occasional gaffes at some of the thousands of ceremonial events he has attended.
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Brother Reilly had been appointed manuductor—"he who leads by the hand"—because even now, as a second-year novice, he was brusque and withdrawn, inclined to hang back from group activities.
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Paula, his rather brusque and devoted wife, had died that January, leaving him in near isolation in his chosen retirement home in Sde Boker, a remote communal village in the Negev desert.
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This was unusual: in our conversations, she tended to be evidence-oriented and almost brusque; her hands busily sketched out arguments in the air, and her laments were accompanied by dry laughter.
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Funny thing is, after asking about Cohen on Twitter yesterday, everyone told me the guy is sort of notorious for being, um, brusque, so we'll see how well that charm offensive goes.
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We can see why Tom, a narcissistic pop-culture savant similar to O'Dowd's character in "Juliet, Naked" (adapted from a Hornby novel), and the brusque, superior Louise were attracted to each other.
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The man who made it is everything I'd hoped for: brusque, bald, holding the wurst with a giant pair of tongs in one hand and a quickly flicking knife in the other.
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But beneath this brusque treatment lies a rich set of norms and customs that have helped the shared taxis, known as "service" taxis (or "servees"), survive the incursion of Uber into Lebanon's capital.
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No B.S. has been getting a lot of hype recently (especially their fan-favorite Retinol Night Cream, $50), and I hope it doesn't derail their transparency, pricing, or brusque approach to skin care.
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No one summons the brusque, energizing symphony that was the Hill District neighborhood of that city as August Wilson does in this 153 group portrait of a gypsy cab company (long before Uber).
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But thanks to a lecture from Sutherland's brusque chief doctor, they're both aware of the competition they face in an overcrowded medical field, and they leap into the flatlining experiments with only token resistance.
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Classical aficionados often attribute Schubert's brusque application of the embellishment to his knowledge of his impending doom: Schubert suffered from typhoid fever—or, as others purport, syphilis—and his death was close at hand.
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SPIRAL (MHz Choice, Tuesday) The first series from France (where it's called "Engrenages," or gears) to break through in the United States, this brusque policier has completed six seasons since its debut in 2005.
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Most piercing of all, perhaps, is the tiny 1942 "Prologue," by Simone Weil, in which Jesus is both brusque and loving, completely immediate and utterly, cruelly absent — all in the span of two pages.
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Now cut to a scene early in the second act when Wheeler, on a date in a restaurant, ends a promising relationship with a brusque, simple sentence that lands like a lethal karate chop.
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On the trail, Bernie Sanders, a candidate with his own brusque style of retail politics, has adopted her signature "selfie line," waiting around events to pose for photos with as many people who ask.
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Reno had been the subject of jokes about her height (6-foot-1), her demeanor (brusque), and her appearance (irrelevant) since she became attorney general in 1993 and was launched into the national spotlight.
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Promising that "America will be back" once Donald Trump leaves office, Biden won a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference from delegates who find the president's brusque foreign policy stance hard to like.
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The brusque and opinionated Bolton is as loved in some quarters for his uncompromising conservatism as he is loathed in others -- particularly among foreign service diplomats in the State Department -- for his views and style.
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Now that those links have lost their relevance, residents' dislike of Mr Emanuel, who is perceived as "brusque", "iron-fisted" and beholden to rich donors and corporate interests, has begun to play a bigger role.
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The former Miami prosecutor, who was picked by Clinton only after his first two choices for the job ran into trouble, exhibited an independent streak and a brusque manner that often upset the White House.
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The order will not surprise the millions of Filipinos who rallied behind Duterte, an alternative election candidate they swept to power for his down-to-earth style, casual attire and brusque, at times comical, remarks.
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There's a sameness to a lot of these offerings: the lurching from one crisis to the next; the brusque, pithy exchanges that rarely last more than a few sentences; the cursory attention to secondary characters.
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His three divorces, and the brusque ways they were handled, turned many Thais against him and left a trail of broken families, including four children in the United States with whom he has cut ties.
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Considering his perfectionist approach to pizza and the annoyances baked into ordering at his shop, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine Beddia with a brusque vibe similar to those found in Philly's neon cheesesteak windows.
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The ruling will offer a hint as to whether governments and regulators are becoming more receptive to Mr. Khosrowshahi's conciliatory efforts as he seeks to move past the brusque manner associated with his predecessor, Travis Kalanick.
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This is, of course, self-evident information, but filmmakers tend to favor more brusque techniques to depict this (in the case of Nazis, movies too often love to revel in their sadism, titillating viewers with outrage).
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Like other executives in the go-go days of the music industry, he led a fast lifestyle of his own, and even in a business of strong personalities he stood out for his brusque, mercurial manner.
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After a brusque exchange where Heard was asked to produce her identification, she says she headed to the second floor, where she was greeted by another security officer and then Orlando Bogins, the school's dean of students.
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Outside there's the brusque and bustling city, New York in 1928, where unfriendly creditors wait in ambush for him; upstairs, in Room 492, there's the silence of the bed, where unwelcome thoughts can echo until they deafen.
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Cummings is lauded by some Brexit campaigners for taking on a much better financed campaign for Britain to stay in the EU at a 2016 referendum, but criticised by others for his brusque manner and challenging thinking.
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Hungry diners (and Instagrammers) line up at the nearly century-old Chin Mee Chin Confectionery, a local institution where charcoal-grilled buns (7 Singapore dollar each) and heaping servings of nostalgia make up for the brusque service.
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As I follow the pair around on a chilly winter day, I find myself amazed by how confident and assertive they seem when talking to a group of strangers who have a collective reputation of being brusque.
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I cornered one of the sharply dressed start-up guys with the bag slung over his shoulder at Weinmeisterstraße U-Bahn to ask where he'd got it, and was met with a brusque "keine Ahnung" (no idea).
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Conway, the aforementioned deliveryman, might kick off a conversation with a beleaguered and verbose bureaucrat, but you might choose to be Shannon Márquez, a TV repairwoman and Conway's traveling companion, to end it with a brusque response.
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He has mooted military action against Iran and North Korea, is skeptical of negotiations with what he sees as rogue states, and has left a trail of stories about his brusque management style that infuriated past colleagues.
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Some Republicans who make places like Ohio's 12th District home are said – even by some nominal conservatives among the chattering class – to abhor President Trump's conduct, his manner, and the brusque statements emanating frequently from his Twitter account.
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Macron's reputation has been hit by the brusque departure of two high-profile ministers and a summer scandal over his bodyguard, while stubbornly high unemployment, high taxes and rising fuel prices add to a general feeling of discontent.
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" Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, pressed Mr. Sessions on a litany of issues that "looks like" they need a special counsel to investigate, the attorney general was brusque: " 'Looks like' is not enough to appoint a special counsel.
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The tenor Jorge de León, making his Metropolitan Opera debut, started off with a brusque "Celeste Aida," but relaxed enough by the second-act triumphal scene to show off a healthy tone in high notes, glinting metal yet mellow.
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Brazil's economy is experiencing a brusque downturn, and Argentina's has been sluggish in recent years, made worse by a debt dispute that has blocked the government's access to global lending markets and led Citigroup to close its custody business last year.
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Its brusque, angular style would directly or indirectly influence post-punk and indie-rock bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers (who chose Mr. Gill to produce their debut album), the Jesus Lizard, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Franz Ferdinand and Protomartyr.
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The 47-year-old is lauded by some Brexit campaigners for his successful strategy to convince voters to back leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum, but is hated by some lawmakers for his brusque manner and seeming disregard for parliament.
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After sitting in a waiting room filled with pregnant women, I'd get a brusque and formulaic appointment that consisted of a pelvic exam, Pap smear, and a quick question about birth control, and then I was sent on my way.
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Greek-born Philip has remained at his wife's side throughout her 66-year reign, the longest in British history, and has earned a reputation for brusque comments and occasional gaffes at some of the thousands of ceremonial events he has attended.
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Her telephone calls to Dr. Villalba (Hugo Albores), the brusque medic in charge of her husband's case, are answered with the usual mechanical evasions — he's not in; he will be available tomorrow at such and such a time — or ignored altogether.
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But the chief executive's brusque manner and a perception among bankers that he is not subjecting himself to the same sacrifices that he is asking of them has created tension within the bank — made worse by the stock's continuing slump.
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"Throughout this show's first season, Ms. Appleby took one of the most psychologically layered parts on television (a brusque, immoral TV producer) and never overplayed trauma," Wesley Morris wrote in The Times in a roundup of the best performances in 2015.
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The President's brusque style, an asset that helped him win the White House, complicates his next assignment -- a visit to console those wounded and traumatized by the Las Vegas massacre, a day after a trip to the Puerto Rico disaster zone.
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Emerging market assets saw a rout in the past month following the dollar's rally of some 6 percent since mid-April on the back of strong U.S. jobs and wages data and a brusque policy tightening outlook for the Federal Reserve.
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Staff were by turns professional and brusque: bellhops were quick to greet at the entrance, but sluggish to unload cars; reception doubled as a concierge offering rushed directions and restaurant recommendations while guests eager to check in or out queued behind.
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A brusque and brittle negotiator, he has amassed a liberal fever dream of achievements, among them stricter gun control, same-sex marriage laws, a ban on fracking, a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave and the extension of a millionaires' tax.
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While Republican governors stopped well short of declaring common cause with Democrats on health care, state executives from both parties gave a brusque reception to Trump administration officials who trekked to Rhode Island to lobby governors for their support. Gov.
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The film-within-the-show stars Jim Carrey as a brusque lawyer who magically becomes Leap Dave Williams after an ice-fishing mishap; Andie MacDowell plays his long-suffering love interest, standing by and shaking her head at his rascal ways.
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Hopkins the Supreme Court used a comparison test to conclude Title VII protects employees who don't conform to gender stereotypes, in the case of a female auditor who claimed she didn't make partner because she was as brusque and aggressive as male counterparts.
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Now they are mushy, dingy, gray and sometimes cold," he wrote, adding that the servers, once "charmingly brusque, now give the strong impression that these endless demands for food and drink are all that's standing between them and a hard-earned nap.
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In between is the almost brusque "Portrait of a Carmelite Friar" (around 1618), rendered in open, faceted strokes that hint at Lucian Freud, followed by a painting of a red-haired young woman — perhaps the artist's sister — her long tresses streaming loose.
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As brusque a move as it was to release Bharara and the other U.S attorneys from service, Trump's team got busy reminding the press that replacing a vast majority of the country's 94 U.S. attorneys is common practice for a new president.
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Merrily widowed and wealthy enough to roam with relative impunity, she's unprepared for the complex politics of the region, managing to irritate the tribespeople, the United States Army (in the brusque form of a stellar Sam Rockwell) and the brutally bigoted townsfolk.
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If the staging is considered as an entry in Kentridge's multimedia œuvre, it delivers a potent distillation of signature motifs: brusque drawings and prints of wounded faces and ravaged landscapes; stop-action animation of spasmodically jerking figures; photographic collages and cinematic montages.
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She plays Patty Hogg, a domineering Southern matron; the oddball neighbor girl, Nutmeg; Ronnie Vino, the brusque "regional wine lady"; and a hobo with a foot fetish who takes a shine to Amy in a scene that finds Ms. Sedaris harassing herself.
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"Bright" takes place in an alternate version of Los Angeles where humans live side-by-side with fantasy creatures like fairies, elves and centaurs; Mr. Smith plays a brusque cop whose new partner is a lumbering, oversized orc, played by Joel Edgerton.
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He's being more blunt now, delivering brusque takes on left-wing politics that have lead his friends of all political stripes to call him "Larry David," a reference to the comedian and star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" whose shtick is speaking without a filter.
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Brusque, avuncular, and with a reputation for being overly plain-speaking, Prince Philip has over seven decades been a formidable presence at the side of Queen Elizabeth II as she made the countless round of dinners, ceremonies and other engagements expected of the British monarch.
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The typical woman of the erotic thriller—Sharon Stone's icy Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct or Linda Fiorentino's brusque Bridget in The Last Seduction—is manipulative and brilliant, enjoys casual sex but uses it as a tool to get what she wants, and is utterly amoral.
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In Lexington – a spot of blue in a sea of red that sided with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election by a 2-1 margin – most local business owners sided with The Red Hen co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson giving a brusque reception to Sanders.
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It's a showpiece about Churchill, who drinks copiously, makes rude gestures both on purpose and accidentally, and, though brusque at times, seems genuinely to care for the people around him, including his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), children, and secretary (Lily James), all of whom love him back.
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At a staff meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Trump's new chief of staff, John F. Kelly, announced a number of seemingly quotidian internal moves, capped by the appointment of Kirstjen Nielsen — his brusque, no-nonsense longtime aide — as an assistant to the president and his principal deputy.
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She went at it with a fervor that didn't win many friends at the firm, where she had already earned a reputation for being brusque, impatient and given to profanity-laced tirades on Morgan's trading floor before slamming down the phone — a characterization she did not dispute.
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She went at it with a fervor that didn't win many friends at the firm, where she had already earned a reputation for being brusque, impatient and given to profanity-laced tirades on Morgan's trading floor before slamming down the phone — a characterization she did not dispute.
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It is also a rare event, the first solo show in nearly seven years of work by an artist, now seventy-eight, who is not only esteemed but cherished in the art world, as a paragon of aesthetic rigor, poetic sapience, and brusque, funny personal charm.
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If the show starts casually resurrecting humans via host technology, I hope she's on the bring-back list, because I never stopped enjoying her brusque practicality and cut-the-crap attitude, which cuts through so much of Westworld's pontificating and mystery in favor of a straightforward survival instinct.
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The reason, Chishti says, is that while many cities chafed under former President Barack Obama's deportation actions, they have been completely alienated by Trump's brusque immigration policies and language (including his attempts to cut federal policing aid to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement).
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Jensen assumed the unplanned reboot was a typically brusque move by Maersk's central IT department, a little-loved entity in England that oversaw most of the corporate empire, whose eight business units ranged from ports to logistics to oil drilling, in 574 offices in 130 countries around the globe.
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Donnelly Rhodes, a Canadian-born character actor best remembered by American television audiences for playing an escaped convict on the sitcom "Soap" and a brusque doctor on the recent reboot of "Battlestar Galactica," died on Monday at a hospice facility near his home in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
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O'Leary, who gained fame as a brusque dealmaker on the reality show "Shark Tank," had no political experience and tenuous ties to the party but stole the spotlight because of an outsized media profile and the support of Canadians who saw the businessman as a breath of fresh air.
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While the behavior of some Homeland Security officers at entry points can be brusque, officious and wholly intrusive, the problem of what America has become for visitors and citizens alike is owed to misconceived laws that have reshaped us, not to those few people charged with border enforcement.
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O'Leary, who gained fame as a brusque dealmaker on the reality show "Shark Tank", has no political experience and tenuous ties to the party but has held the spotlight due to an outsized media profile and the support of Canadians who say the businessman is a breath of fresh air.
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Her gait, usually so graceful, is utterly transformed as she bow-leggedly clomps down hard on the ground; her shoulders are slumped, the picture of someone who's been wounded and can't bear to go through that again; and her speech is raspy and brusque — when it's not slurred from drink.
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Another factor cited by some who frequently dealt with the mayor involved his personality; he often lectures his staff during meetings in what people describe as a condescending tone, and he is known for berating or belittling subordinates in front of others or shooting off emails criticizing them in brusque terms.
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It's reminiscent of a 2009 incident in which the Obama White House tried to exclude Fox News from interviewing a newly-appointed administration official, Kenneth Feinberg -- and got a brusque reply from the bureau chiefs of ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC that they would skip planned interviews with Feinberg unless Fox was included.
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Now, Amazon is back, hoping that a futuristic concept it has tried out in cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago will thrive in New York, a singular metropolis where customers are notoriously brusque, shoplifting is common and progressive activists, union leaders and small businesses remain skeptical of the company's motives.
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There's Jane (Margo Seibert), an actress working as an office temp while waiting for her big break; and her potential soul mate Nate (James Snyder), a suddenly jobless Wall Street trader who once had more humanitarian aspirations and who learns a lesson or two from a brusque subway booth attendant (Moya Angela).
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"I lived in New York for a decade, so I think I'm allowed to say this: New Yorkers can be brusque, but they are so proud of their city and knowing their way around that they will go well out of their way to help someone find something — especially out-of-towners," DeConnick said.
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During sex, he moved her through a series of positions with brusque efficiency, flipping her over, pushing her around, and she felt like a doll again, as she had outside the 7-Eleven, though not a precious one now—a doll made of rubber, flexible and resilient, a prop for the movie that was playing in his head.
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He writes with a brusque charm, training his eye toward features of the league that many longtime observers might take for granted or condition themselves to ignore: the glad-handing between joyless, high-profile reporters and secretive team intermediaries; the personal assistants who chase after the superstars' toddlers; the powerful league officials whose names no fans know.
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In parts of the world where Britain's parliamentary system and adherence to the rule of law provided a model to emerging nations, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's brusque decision to shut down Parliament for crucial weeks ahead of the looming Brexit deadline is seen by some as proof that Britain, too, can be subject to a power grab.
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There was the middlebrow upbringing in a provincial English town; the unlikely rise to prime minister ("As in Grantham, Margaret was again living over the shop"); war with the cabinet and the trade unions; solidarity with the United States; conservatism; femininity; glamour; strength; and a brusque and commanding style that put Britain's patriarchy in its place.
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" Now she is the toast of this awards season, earning Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations for her brusque yet endearing turn as Ngoc Lan Tran, a dissident who loses a leg while escaping Vietnam in a TV-set box (did we mention her character is five inches tall?), in the new eco-fantasy "Downsizing.
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The result is We Don't Embroider Cushions Here, published by Édition Monumental, a photo book that will make you giggle or blush — but also cleverly draws unexpected ties between the debasement of the women on film and Le Corbusier's own brusque treatment of his female colleague who, for decades, didn't receive due credit for her vision.
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Unable to write a follow-up to his tepid first novel, Congratulations, You're Dying, Jimmy is constantly distracted‐by alcoholism, by masturbating, by trying to write a novelization of NCIS LA. When he meets the brusque Gretchen Cutler (Aya Cash) at his ex-girlfriend's wedding, the two hook up for what they both believe to be a one-night stand.
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In effect, Mr. Trump was blithely taking full credit for ending a brutal battle he had a hand in starting and claiming a significant feat when in fact the betrayal of the Kurds and the brusque, thoughtless American withdrawal undermined American credibility and was a major victory for Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Syria.
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There Are Worse Things I Could Do It may be a controversial opinion to rank this song so high, but for Betty Rizzo, a supposed teenage pregnancy accomplished what a back brace did for Regina George decades later: force her to take a hard look at herself when before then, she'd been relying on a brusque exterior to mask her pain and insecurity.
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After lauding his accomplishments, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Trump finds consistent foil in 'Squad' MORE (R-Calif.) joked about Young's brusque demeanor and the reputation he's gained for being a straight shooter in Congress.
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When we first meet grown-up Christian (one of his many aliases borrowed from real mathematicians), he's a soft-spoken, fabric-sensitive, thermos-carrying, incongruity-loving, finger-blowing accountant helping people find tax loopholes in Illinois, where he does his best to blend in despite the fact that between his strapping physique and brusque interpersonal demeanor, he clearly stands out.
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Chinese officials said they felt less of a connection to the rest of the group, which includes, among others, Robert E. Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, who was described as brusque by people on the Chinese side; Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser and longtime critic of China; Larry Kudlow, who leads the National Economic Council; and Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary.
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A tough, brusque, often polarizing leader who struck colleagues as being out of place at Morgan Stanley, he was widely credited with pulling the firm out of its white-shoe rut into an era of enormous growth and painful change, less focused on exclusive services for blue-chip clients and more on the rough-and-tumble of securities trading, mergers and acquisitions and money management.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An unfinished film can be any number of things: the sketchy shambles of a work to be reconstructed in the imaginations of its audience; a partial, suggestive film, beleaguered by jagged seams and brusque transitions; an overabundance of material, never edited; or a work that's pre-programmed for incompletion, dictated by an artist's antipathy for finitude or determination.
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Sunday breakfast at Barney's is one of those quintessential New York things to do: a crowded, ugly dining room, unchanged for decades, wobbly tables, brusque waiters, generic coffee; but their eggs scrambled with dark, caramelised onions and their lox, served with fresh toasted bagel or bialy [a Polish roll], is ethereal, and the hometeam crowd of Upper-West-Siders is about as 'genuine New York' as you can get.
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Immigrant rights advocates have a brusque message for Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as the Republican presidential nominee aims to attract more Hispanics to his struggling campaign: It ain't gonna work.
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Years of preparation Though Newsom is younger than many of the other governors grappling with the coronavirus, he honed his crisis management skills over many years of government service -- from his early tenure on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to his stint as San Francisco's lightning-rod mayor, and then as lieutenant governor under Jerry Brown, who was at first brusque and dismissive of the much younger Newsom.
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Other recent examples of the new "unleashed" version of Trump bypassing a more pliant West Wing operation after a staff purge include his shocking snap decision to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un -- a move that threw his top foreign policy advisers for a loop -- and his brusque firing of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin last week and announcement of his presidential physician, Ronny Jackson, as a replacement.
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Martin O'Malley, for instance, was coached by activists and staff-level aides to not say things like "All Lives Matter" and he said it anyway; Hillary Clinton pedantically addressed a young black organizer from a black-led organization who wanted her to talk about her use of the phrase "superpredators"; Bernie Sanders erred with high-profile activists in a private meeting on the topic of mass incarceration and was widely criticized for his brusque manner with protesters.
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The brusque firing of FBI Director James Comey, the maundering stories from administration officials as to why he was removed from the position, and President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's own improvident behavior are the most recent incidences that the current occupant of White House is overmatched by the responsibilities of the office.
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" Mallarino's parenting blunder and the congressman's ill reputation and suspicious behavior, in the end, aren't the cartoonist's chief concerns: "Bones are the only things that matter; in them, in the shape of the skull and the angle of the nose, in the width of the forehead and the strength or trepidation of a jaw and the dimples on a chin, their delicate or brusque slopes, their more or less intense shadows, there lies the reputation and the image: Give me a bone and I shall move the world.
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