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Перевод: abruptness

[существительное]
внезапность ; неожиданность ; непредсказуемость ; неровность ; резкость ; крутизна ; обрывистость

Тезаурус:

1. The abruptness of these transitions is partly concealed by the categories imposed on the data: by the assumption, for example, that rebellion in pursuit of economic gain is rational, whereas a belief in witchcraft is irrational and escapist.
2. Paul falls asleep with shattering abruptness.
3. Wartime aid, in the form of Lend Lease, was cut off abruptly six days after VJ day, though Truman later apologised to Stalin for the abruptness of the action which, he explained, was due to administrative error.
4. He had been smiling at the screen, an expression which fell with such abruptness from his face when he looked at the doorway that Zambia was convinced SHe heard it hit the floor with a crack.
5. The mise-en-scne showed a sad confusion, too, between a coup de thetre and a mere coup de tte : over-emphatic projection meant that each piece was ejaculated with the abruptness - but neither the insouciance nor the demotic wit - of the slices in Morecambe and Wise's justly celebrated performance, The Stripper .
6. Then, with dramatic abruptness, a decision is taken to close the institution or move on.
7. Across the street, beyond a wide stretch of frost-laced gravel, there was a huge triumphal arch on which were four horses driven by a goddess of peace, over whom, in turn, hung two flags, both enormous as if vying with each other and both striped red, orange and black, the far one with those stripes alone, but the near one bearing the wreath, hammer and dividers of the German Democratic Republic, and under it all, cutting the avenue in half, halting it with the abruptness of Finis at the end of a book, and behind a fragile metal fence, snow on its top giving it an odd, festive look, there was a drab grey wall made of concrete blocks.
8. I MOVE from game to game with increasing abruptness.
9. Revisionist research has underlined the major scale of those mutinies, and the abruptness with which soldiers refused to implement orders to crush disturbances and began instead to press their own grievances.
10. The abruptness of this conclusion to the proceedings suggests a way of doing business which must seem strange to any modern mind.
11. Trainees will come to realise that their action, by its abruptness, has carried with it the judgement that the client is guilty of incest.
12. Khrushchev lavished banquets, ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing - then, with mysterious abruptness, withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question, where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops.
13. Abruptness was her most familiar mode, and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles, whenever she got the chance: and Charles, accustomed to being listened to with reverence, took it in good part.