All 50 Uses of
abrupt
in
Atlas Shrugged
- When he rose abruptly, without apology, they rose, too, accepting it as a command.†
Chpt 1.3
- He turned abruptly, took out his handkerchief and dipped it in the water of the river.†
Chpt 1.5
- She started running down the hill to meet him, but stopped abruptly.†
Chpt 1.5
- She walked, cutting across a room, with a masculine, straight-line abruptness, but she had a peculiar grace of motion that was swift, tense and oddly, challengingly feminine.†
Chpt 1.5
- He had been silent for a long time, when she rose abruptly and told him that she had to go.†
Chpt 1.5
- But the smile vanished abruptly; he saw the entrance of a new guest: it was Dagny Taggart.†
Chpt 1.6
- He turned abruptly and started toward his car.†
Chpt 1.7
- I'm sorry," he said; she wondered whether she imagined the note of abruptness in his voice.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was as crudely abrupt as if he had thrown a switch.†
Chpt 1.7
- He got up, his movement abrupt and stressed, the movement of ending an interview and ordering a visitor out of his office.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was past midnight, when, still sitting at his desk, bent over blueprints of the bridge for the John Galt Line, he stopped his work abruptly, because emotion reached him in a sudden stab, not to be escaped any longer, as if a curtain of anesthesia had broken, He slumped down, halfway, still holding onto some shred of resistance, and sat, his chest pressed to the edge of the desk to stop him, his head hanging down, as if the only achievement still possible to him was not to let his…†
Chpt 1.7
- By pressing her face to the pane, she could see the whole of the Taggart Building, its lines converging abruptly to its distant pinnacle in the sky.†
Chpt 1.8
- Instead, she saw the shadow jerk abruptly, as if he were jolted backward, then he turned and walked away.†
Chpt 1.8
- Trees and telegraph poles sprang into sight abruptly and went by as if jerked back.†
Chpt 1.8
- When she grasped it, she burst out laughing, suddenly, with the abruptness of a cry.†
Chpt 1.8
- He turned to her abruptly, the words exploding as if a safety fuse had blown.†
Chpt 1.9
- He picked up his drink, took a gulp, and chuckled abruptly at a sudden recollection.†
Chpt 1.9
- He refilled his glass and drained it, but his gaiety vanished abruptly.†
Chpt 1.9
- Then his smile vanished abruptly; the way he jerked the cru-fin was the first break in the smooth competence of his movements: it looked like a jolt of anger.†
Chpt 1.9
- The road ended abruptly behind the turn of a hill.†
Chpt 1.9
- He rose abruptly, but stopped to glance down at the broken remnant and said, with a chuckle that was not gay, "There was the motor for the John Galt Line."†
Chpt 1.9
- He broke off abruptly.†
Chpt 1.10
- He stopped abruptly, as if at a sudden recollection.†
Chpt 2.1
- It stopped her abruptly; she took a few seconds to realize that it was the old man at the cigar stand who had called.†
Chpt 2.2
- It always happened unexpectedly, with a kind of peculiar abruptness, as if he had not intended doing it, but something burst within him and he had to speak.†
Chpt 2.2
- Francisco turned abruptly, not waiting for an answer, and started away.†
Chpt 2.2
- Rearden began and stopped abruptly.†
Chpt 2.2
- There were the voices abruptly choked off, the pools of silence, then sounds of a different nature; the rising, hysterical inflections of uselessly repeated questions, the unnatural whispers, a woman's scream, the few spaced, forced giggles of those still trying to pretend that nothing was happening.†
Chpt 2.2
- The secretary smiled with sudden animation, as if she were about to utter an enthusiastic compliment, but the smile vanished abruptly.†
Chpt 2.3
- He stopped abruptly, looking at someone behind her.†
Chpt 2.5
- His facial muscles moved abruptly, and the movement vanished, having conveyed no expression.†
Chpt 2.6
- Rearden started, and stopped abruptly, realizing that— it was the way, the only way left, realizing through how many twists of intellectual corruption upon corruption this boy had to struggle toward his momentous discovery.†
Chpt 2.6
- When he proceeded to speak to her about business, his manner was more harshly abrupt than it had ever been with any of his masculine customers.†
Chpt 2.6
- "Hello," said Rearden, fighting to control the unnatural abruptness of his voice.†
Chpt 2.7
- He vanished beyond the stone fence, as abruptly and soundlessly as he had come.†
Chpt 2.7
- Mitchum rose abruptly and walked upstairs to his office, clutching Locey's order in his hand.†
Chpt 2.7
- He shot to his feet with the stored abruptness of a spring uncoiling, his voice driving on in merciless triumph: "You're beginning to see, aren't you?†
Chpt 2.8
- Her sudden movement had the abruptness of a convulsion.†
Chpt 2.8
- With a single movement of her arm, the abrupt, explosive movement of sheer physical brutality, such as he had never seen from her before, she swept the magazines off the table and went on, her voice reciting a list of figures without a break, as if there were no connection between her mind and the violence of her body.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was not a town, only a cluster of houses scattered at random from the bottom to the rising steps of the mountains that went on rising above their roofs, enclosing them within an abrupt, impassable circle.†
Chpt 3.1
- The sight of their faces hit her with the abruptness of a collision.†
Chpt 3.1
- There was something faintly familiar in the swift abruptness of his Galt.†
Chpt 3.1
- Abruptly, behind a turn of the road, she saw the green acres of pastures stretching to a distant farmhouse.†
Chpt 3.1
- On a distant mountainside, in the dense green of a forest, she saw a. pine tree slanting down suddenly, tracing a curve, like the hand of a clock, then crashing abruptly out of sight.†
Chpt 3.1
- She rose to her feet, but stopped: she heard his voice, its tone abruptly changed and grave, as if in answer to the shock of some sight confronting him: "What's the matter?†
Chpt 3.2
- Galt turned away with a movement that seemed oddly out of character: it had the unrhythmical abruptness of the involuntary.†
Chpt 3.2
- She leaped abruptly to her feet.†
Chpt 3.2
- He stopped abruptly; he read in Dagny's startled eyes the same thought as his own: the thought of the kind of dangers the adult Ragnar had chosen to face.†
Chpt 3.2
- The plane swooped down abruptly, but it was only the start of its final rise, it cut a swift diagonal across the mountains and shot into the open sky.†
Chpt 3.2
- He stopped abruptly and guiltily.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle