Both Uses
brusque
in
The Sun Also Rises
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- She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.
Book 2.15 *brusque = abrupt (sudden and quick)
- There was no brusqueness.†
Book 2.18brusqueness = abruptness (quickness without taking the time to be friendly)
Definitions:
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(1)
(brusque) abrupt (sudden and quick -- without taking the time to be friendly)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)