Before I could write an email apologizing for my curtness, a message on Facebook asked me to dinner.
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The curtness of his response gave the misleading impression that he didn't, in fact, enjoy his job or derive satisfaction from his career.
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"I mean it's neutral tone—focused to the point of curtness," he said, after I'd sent him the Le Roux email for comparison.
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The pain behind his eyes plus his curtness to discuss it any further told me their old weed giveaways may have ended in tears.
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But his curtness in dismissing the concerns of a woman journalist (dredging up memories of his painfully testy exchange with critic Jan Wahl in 19693) made the exchange explode across the internet.
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The result is a strange mixture of curtness and bagginess, with far more information about Mark and Karen's unremarkable lives than the story needs, delivered in far denser chunks than the reader can digest with any pleasure.
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Sometimes it is all a matter of missed timing, not necessarily a break in protocol, and perhaps an earlier curtness would have allowed for both a curtsy and a hug after, but only if the senior royal initiated it.
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Knowing what we know about how everything plays out, Liu does a nice job of seeding the tension between Leia and Han — and you can see the difference between how the two communicate (the rambling, the curtness, how they listen to one another), and the spark of intrigue between them.
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Frederick, R. D. (2000). "Jamaica Kincaid", Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American, pp. 314–319. Retrieved October 21, 2015. It has also been praised for its keen observation of character, curtness, wit, and lyrical quality.
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That in his person and personality, the social scientist Thorstein Veblen was neglectful of his grooming and tended to be disheveled; that he suffered social intolerance for being an intellectual and an agnostic in a society of superstitious and anti-intellectual people, and so tended to curtness with less intelligent folk.
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Tribu Move deemed that this song marked a big musical change in the singer's career. On 18 August, French magazine Télé Star qualified "Dégénération" as a "failure", "a repetitive single without refrain, which has left perplexed fans of the first hour as well as professional people". It also stressed that the song was "poorly aired on radio due to overall negative feedbacks from listeners". According to Le Monde, "Dégénération" is characterized by "rather minimalist arrangements and a curtness tone".
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They promise Atherton Lindon's love if he agrees to join forces, but Atherton, noticing the Arab has the eyes of a skilled hypnotist, does not take the bait. They leave and a moment later Lessingham arrives. He apologises for his curtness last night and requests that Atherton does not speak of it to anyone, claiming that he does not want to be bothered by rumours sure to come out of it. Atherton consents, prompting Lessingham to ask him some questions on ancient superstitions and extinct religions, which Atherton has some knowledge on.
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Norman Knight, who are close friends to Bertha and Harry. Guest, Eddie Warren, is an effeminate character, who adds an interesting mix to someone who Bertha is mysteriously drawn to for reasons unknown to her at the start. The interesting thing is that Bertha's husband is presented to the reader as Bertha perceives him in her mind. Because Bertha is so naive, the reader first gets the impression that Harry is a crude, disinterested person who has a strong dislike for Pearl by his conversational tone and curtness towards her as the conversation unfolds.
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Jess and Rory begin dating after the town's annual dance marathon, where Dean breaks up with Rory over her barely concealed attraction to Jess. The couple experience problems with jealousy and communication, and Jess and Dean's mutual enmity causes tension in their relationship. Lorelai and Jess do not warm to one another. Rory's grandmother Emily also questions Lorelai's permission for the relationship when Jess's first and last appearance at Friday night dinner is marked by his lateness, curtness, and an unexplained black-eye which culminates in an argument with Rory and him leaving, stranding Rory at the Gilmore mansion overnight.
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The extreme curtness of the sources on Sverker II's wives has given rise to an alternative chronology of the marriages. It has been suggested that Ingegerd was in fact his first consort, which tied him to the powerful House of Bjälbo in Östergötland. Ingegerd's father, Jarl Birger Brosa, was presumably instrumental in arranging the peaceful succession in 1195/96, when Sverker was enthroned after the death of his father's murderer Canute I. On the other hand, Sverker was able to gather strong support from his Danish in-laws when he tried to take back his kingdom from Canute I's son Eric in 1208. This support would have come more naturally if Sverker was married to Benedicta at this time.
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He also noted, "there is often some comic relief to be found when Kratos' curtness and Atreus' charming naivety collide." He felt the presence of Atreus showed a side to Kratos not seen before, and that Kratos had evolved emotionally: "The rage and pain of his past is in constant conflict with his desire to spare his son from it, which comes across in even the most subtle actions and words, demonstrating the effort he is putting in." Plessas said Atreus' character was similarly complex. He commented it is easy for child characters "to succumb to a number of annoying child archetypes," but Atreus is more like a young man who is doing his best in an adult world.
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In her early days as speaker, Sauvé often made mistakes with the names of MPs or the ridings they represented—once calling on the Prime Minister as the "leader of the opposition"—and occasionally miscarried procedural rulings, which led to MPs addressing her with increasing curtness. Further, all 32 of the New Democratic Party MPs in the house walked out in protest of what they viewed as a bias on Sauvé's part; they felt she allowed Liberal MPs to ask more questions than those from any other party. In a CBC interview, Sauvé conceded that the NDP members may have been right that the Liberals may have been allowed more questions over two or three days, but, on the whole, each party received an equal number of opportunities. It was also speculated that MPs had taken to showboating for the television cameras that had recently been installed in the chamber.
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