Sentences with phrase «seems abrupt»

It just seems abrupt to get asked all of that information without an explanation.

I found the first two games somewhat disappointing but it seems the abrupt end to the planned six game saga was for the best.

Their transformation seems abrupt and not wholly convincing, but this feel - good movie has an exceptional, mostly young cast, some of whom may agree with psychologists who say that people in their twenties are overall the most troubled in our country.

The first third meanders along too slowly while the ending seems abrupt and slapped together.

And if the ending seems abrupt, it's because it is.

Colin, I apologize if my comment seemed abrupt to you, but it was nonetheless on par with his own words.

Though it seemed abrupt, Comey's ouster was actually the culmination of a toxic dynamic between him and the president that was a year in the making.

The first act seemed to be in slow motion and fast forward all at the same time while the end seemed abrupt and not fully fleshed out.

On the SE and Limited, however, the gas pedal's response will likely seem abrupt until one acclimates.

The shift from straightforward young adult romance to a more intense story of intolerance and hatred may seem abrupt or even jarring to many readers, but in the end, this backdrop helps provide context for Maya's personal conflicts and illustrate how her particular struggles are both universal and also specific to her identity as a young American Muslim woman of Indian descent.

The ending did seem abrupt, though; I wish it had gone just a chapter more, just for a smidgen more resolution.

Not exact matches

If this column seems flighty or abrupt, you'll have to excuse me: I've got as much caffeine as blood coursing through my veins.

Presently, speculators seem not to recognize how strongly the odds are stacked against them, and how steep and abrupt market losses could become.

I generally like to get straight to the point, and in online conversations, that sometimes seems a bit abrupt.

Under an abrupt, lefthanded whip from jockey Mike Smith — «Love taps,» Smith said, although there were 17 of them on a horse who had almost never been hit before — Holy Bull responded and beat back Concern, who had seemed certain to pass him.

The possibility of an Audi F1 team seems more likely than it has in the past though as the German manufacturer was present during discussions over what F1s next engine formula should be, not to mention the engineers that are probably kicking their heels following the abrupt end of Audi's LMP1 programme.

True, Manchester City seem to be making light work of the plenitude of fixtures they have taken on this season, but Chelsea's abrupt decline does make you wonder whether they are essentially failing to cope with their fixture list.

The White House's abrupt move seems to be a response to renewed lobbying by gain - of - function critics who wanted such work suspended and others who sought to evaluate its risks and benefits without disrupting existing research.

They also seem to be unaware of that the Arctic sea ice still exists and its abrupt collapse will trigger the next rapid warming!

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

You do seem not quite up to date with current thinking on abrupt climate changes (now I'm referring to your polemic question «Were all of these triggered by Lake Agassiz dam bursts?»

I've not access to Martison / Pitman III paper, but it seems you don't exactly speak of the same phenomenon (that is, the CO2 objection may be not pertinent for the question of abrupt transition).

Each of the triggers lead to an abrupt and short rise in blood pressure, which would seem to be a possible common cause of aneurysmal rupture.

Anyway, thanks for the article, I guess my switch to a low - carb diet was very abrupt and it seems like I put too much stress on my body during the last year.

And unlike that bloated 1997 dystopian juggernaut, the film manages to clock in at a surprisingly sleek and multiplex - friendly 88 minutes, and its abrupt but elegant conclusion has the curious benefit of making this extravagantly silly entertainment seem somehow smarter and more enigmatic in retrospect than it does while it's unfolding.

There is the potential for a truly good baddie in the man in the gold mask, but then his demise in a battle with Kingsley is way too abrupt and short on drama (not to mention that when Kingsley calls out from the top of the ridge that he has vanquished the tyrant, everyone in the pitch of battle seems to hear him clearly - uh, don't think so!

The philosopher Stanley Fish has written that the way the film alters the real - life Northup's memoirs, cutting out the process by which Northup's freedom was made a public crusade and presenting it instead as a surprise, «is so abrupt and so quickly achieved that it is made to seem miraculous and the audience is not invited to generalize from it to any optimistic conclusion about the merits of the liberal state informed by the rule of law.»

And if that seems like an abrupt tonal shift, well, that's rather the point that actor turned first - time writer - director Xavier Legrand is making.

Dovid is his logical successor, but the entire community seems to know about the incident that led to Ronit's abrupt departure and sent Esti into counseling and a spiritual journey of self - abnegation.

The only reason this did not crack my top ten is that the ending is far too abrupt and seems to cut about 20 - 30 min off the third act.

The film's key fault is its abrupt ending which, after devoting so long to showing the long - term downfall of the man, seems rushed and poorly thought - out.

Regrettably, the rushed conclusion seems not merely abrupt, but, because the movie was in the process of weaving a relatively sophisticated tapestry of loss, simplistic and asinine as well.

The end feels a bit abrupt, and yet, when I thought about it more, it seemed to have more meaning than just too soon of an ending.

A good feature that saves gas in city traffic, but the restart often seemed jerky and abrupt.

Handling, as with previous Grand Cherokees, is class - leading, but there are a couple of complaints: Throttle «tip - in,» when you ease onto the gas from a stop, seemed touchy and abrupt, and the brakes felt a bit spongy.

We upsized to the 3.3 V6 / 5speed both for passing power and a smoother transmission (abrupt shifting seemed to be a complaint for 4 - speed).

It seemed the Allegiance had in her lumbering way still managed to get into flying distance of not one but three lawful prizes, on the way to Madras, and another one on the way back, when Hammond's urgent need of a transport to carry Temeraire to Rio had necessitated her abrupt about - face and return.

Couldn't tell much difference through the video, but the one on the left had less abrupt transitions, images seemed saturated, and the fonts were a bit blurry.

Although certainly chopping Canadian families» ability to buy a home in today's rising market by a whopping 20 % in one abrupt move seems a tad aggressive.

The vacation from volatility equity investors seemed to be so enjoying came to an abrupt end during the first week of February when stocks sold off aggressively as evidenced by an 8.5 % decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow) between January 26 and February 5.

Although some of the lessons may seem rough or abrupt, I feel they are not as abrupt as forcing dogs to linger in the [shelter] environment or be killed.»

It seemed like an abrupt change... all of a sudden we had problems.

We found staff abrupt when we arrived, but they seemed to soften and get friendlier the longer we were there.

The abrupt death of detective Ronan O'Connor in Salem, Massachusetts may seem odd, but it becomes Murdered: Soul Suspect's main premise.

While some mechanical monstrosities were equipped with sensors that could spot me even when hiding in nearby bushes, it seems that some of my human opponents in The Cut, have also learned to utilise the same skill leading to some initially impressive stealth runs coming to an abrupt (and sometimes bloody) end.

The tipping point for some seems to have been the release of a video demonstration of the first - person shooter module, called Star Marine, which was followed by the abrupt announcement that the module was being delayed so the dev team could work on overhauling the network backend.

From time to time it seems a little abrupt and drags you away from the immersive land you've set foot in.

Going from the castle to the pirate ship in what seems like the most abrupt level transition ever.

While it's true that every artist expresses their own presence as well as the presence of the» subject» no matter what the medium or genre, the sort of rupture that existed between representational (mimetic) and nonrepresentational (gesture or phenomonological) in Carone's generation was so abrupt that it seems a good way of identifying the issues.

That show's curator, Dr. Robert S. Mattison, art professor at Lafayette College, seems to posit that while the postwar shift in Kline's art was abrupt and drastic, his familial roots in eastern Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on his creative consciousness, even, it would seem, in the later black - and - whites.