Victoria Moran

I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

American Writer

Pierce Brosnan

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

Irish Actor

Haruki Murakami

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Japanese Writer

Vladimir Nabokov

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

American Novelist

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

American Businessman

Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

English Scientist

Bret Stephens

Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.

American Journalist

Mardy Fish

The sport, my job, was taken from me so abruptly that it took me a long time to get my life back.

American Tennis Player

Ernest Bramah

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

English Writer

Joe Maddon

I did not like leaving the Rays so abruptly.

Use 'abrupt' when an action or event happens so unexpectedly it may cause surprise or shock.

Unexpected Events

Describe a physical reaction, like a stop or movement, that's so sudden it jolts or startles you.

Strong Reactions

Use 'abrupt' for a rapid change in a narrative or subject that might confuse or intrigue.

Story Twists

An 'abrupt' manner might be interpreted as impolite or too direct, even if not intended.

Perceived Rudeness

In dialogue, 'abrupt' can describe ending a conversation quickly, often leaving others surprised.

Conversations Ending

Abruptness in speech might be due to cultural differences, not necessarily intention to be rude.

Misunderstandings

Use 'abrupt' in geography to describe sudden changes in terrain, like cliffs or mountains.

Physical Landscapes

Describe quick transitions in levels or quantities, such as in graphs or measurements.

Changes in Levels

 he told us that when the tide goes out abruptly out to sea and you see the waves churning way out there, that's the sign of a tsunami, and you need to clear the beach." What would you do if your 10-year-old daughter came up to you with this? Her parents thought about it, and they finally, to their credit, decided to believe her. They told the lifeguard, they went back to the hotel,

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 in our lives between the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great success. So think of it like For most of your life, you live out your existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults you abruptly way out over here

Success, failure and the...

 what exactly is climate change why should we care well the Earth's climate has changed throughout history most of these slight changes are caused by small variations in the Earth's orbit but climate change as we know it today is characterized by an abrupt increase in the earth's temperature it is estimated to have

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 controllably in our -- so to say -- linear systems, and that in fact, surprise is universal, as systems tip over very rapidly, abruptly and often irreversibly. This, dear friends, poses a human pressure on the planet of momentous scale.

Let the environment...

 and he begins to plots his revenge on the new king and his court of conspirators. The play is an odd sort of tragedy, lacking either the abrupt brutality or all-consuming romance that characterize Shakespeare’s other work in the genre.

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 And she abruptly told me, "Please don't blame yourself. You stood for the right cause. You put your life at stake for the cause of truth, for the cause of peace, and for the cause of education, and your daughter in inspired from you

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 ministers concern of keeping biomes in a stable state in a globalized world this is a new situation we need to consider global tipping points that we are pushing ourselves to a point where things can abruptly change and push

Resilient people,...

 you go and take tears from an animal, rub your finger in an animal's eyes and then rub it on your eyes, it's one of the most unhealthy practices in the world and you can see, see ghosts. Now all of this came to an abrupt end

For the Love of Jaguars...

 water in its hold, and lifeboats missing. The discovery of its intact cargo and a captain's log that ended abruptly led to wild rumors and speculation. But the real culprits were two scientific buoyancy and fluid dynamics.

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 What would they have seen? Over nearly all that immense time, Earth's appearance would have changed very gradually. The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions.