If the movement is brusque backward, it is the menace of a weak man.

" I will not repeat my answer to Melissa, for I fear it was offensively brusque, my opinion being that Sir Gavial was the more pernicious scoundrel of the two, since his name for virtue served as an effective part of a swindling apparatus; and perhaps I hinted that to call such a man moral showed rather a silly notion of human affairs.

To prove this, therefore, Radha's pride must be destroyed and Krishna resorts to this seemingly brusque desertion.

These Druce children must be excellent, according to their mother, but they are terribly brusque and bearish.