How to Use "brusque" with Example Sentences

1. Koh could be brusque and tactless with his colleagues , though he would just as easily break into boyish giggles when something amused him .
2. We can find this loose shooting and brusque editing in most of nolan 's films , and so they don 't seem to me to display innovative , or particularly skilful , visual style .
3. The traditionally atlanticist poles felt sidelined not just by the policy implications of mr obama 's " reset " of relations with russia , but by the brusque way in which they were told to play along .
4. Female voters have never been too keen anyway on alex salmond , the brusque if charismatic leader of the ruling scottish nationalist party ( snp ) and first minister of the scottish government . But they are not alone in being squeamish about much of the pro-independence rhetoric .