abruptness

Again the abruptness of the response left her without anything to say.

The abruptness, the violence of the moment, brought me up short.

The abruptness of the changes was obvious at every turn.

He went to the door with an abruptness which surprised her.

It is common for people to break into stage three with this kind of abruptness.

The abruptness was almost worse than the closing itself, they said.

It was the abruptness more than anything that upset me.

With an abruptness that chilled her, she knew his decision.

He was taken aback by the abruptness of her question.

He walked away with an abruptness that puzzled all of them.

Then the scene changed with an abruptness that took him by surprise.

As it was, that particular matter took care of itself with stunning abruptness.

For all the abruptness of his words, the tone was pleasant.

Then, with dramatic abruptness, a decision is taken to close the institution or move on.

His members were almost always moving, and with jerky abruptness.

And then with stunning abruptness the world dissolved about him.

I said, shocked more by the abruptness than the revelation.

But the abruptness of the correction may now drive the markets down further, they said.

The abruptness was sufficiently out of character for her father to look up, concerned.

The audience was too surprised at the abruptness of his presentation.

He paid for his cigarettes and paper with sudden abruptness.

Glass shoots himself with great abruptness in the story's last sentence.

I demanded, with an abruptness that in turn startled her.

Now she chose sides with an abruptness which did no credit to her training.

The future of American figure skating has arrived with a sudden abruptness.