Pius X, like Pope Pius IX, was considered by some to be too outspoken or brusque.

The host of the program-usually an intentionally brusque and outspoken older male-presents each viewer question in turn and a panel of female celebrities provide their advice on the problem and the panel discusses the problem and the advice given offering opinions and views.

Paxman's brusque manner is not restricted to political interviews.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's working relationship with Dr. Pulaski is somewhat strained, and at the beginning of her service on the ship, her stubborn, brusque manner annoys him at times.

On the advice of his friends, Sam approaches a high-powered lawyer, Rita Harrison ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), whose brusque manner, fast-paced schedule and difficult personal life have earned her a reputation as cold and unfeeling.

After Turner arrived, with his usual brusque manner, the 6 / 1 ended, later to be replaced with Turner's design.

Marcus Antistius rose quickly to the praetorship ; but undisguised antipathy for the new regime and brusque manner he occasionally gave expression to Republican sympathies in the Senate-what Tacitus calls his incorrupta libertas-proved an obstacle to his advancement.

He acquired a reputation as Eisenhower's " hatchet man " for his brusque and demanding manner.

His manner is usually brusque, impatient, and distrustful.

But unlike Sam, Rachel had a very brusque take-charge manner that alienated some of the team members.

However, although he could be amusing company off duty, as he rose the career ladder his brusque manner, possibly adopted to assert his authority, became more marked, even with superiors.

Redfern had a large private practice as a physician, and though somewhat brusque in manner was much liked and trusted ; he became the " best " and " best-known " surgeon in Sydney.

Even then, progress was still slow, particularly as several members objected to the Grand Duke's brusque manner.

According to The New York Times, " Mr. Mantello, who is known in the theater industry for having a temper, reacted to Ms. Mullally in private on a couple of occasions in a manner that she found to be brusque or unsympathetic.

His relationships with his colleagues are tentative ; they are alternately amazed by his intellect and frustrated by his brusque manner and aggressive tactics.

These suggestions were the beginning of Lloyd George's poor relations with the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Robertson, who was " brusque to the point of rudeness " and " barely concealed his contempt for Lloyd George's military opinions ", to which he was in the habit of retorting " I've ' eard different ".

But on 15 September, without taking leave of the Emperor or the other commanders, he set off with his troops on the march back to Saxony, probably as a result of the brusque treatment he had been accorded as a Protestant.

As a man, he was secretive, solitary, irritable, proud of his own achievements ( more as a theorist than as a composer ), brusque with those who contradicted him, and quick to anger.

' Lah ' also occurs frequently with " Yah " and " No " ( hence " Yah lah " and " No lah "), resulting in a less brusque sound, thus facilitating the flow of conversation.

Lah is often used with brusque, short, negative responses:

The brusque symbol obscured the images of Baby Doc and Papa Doc until they were replaced with images of figures from Haitian history.

One Witness history book says that while Russell was kind, warm and tactful, Rutherford " was warm and generous toward his associates but he was also a brusque and direct type of person, and his legal background and experiences in early life gave him a directness in his approach to problems in dealing with his brothers that caused some to take offense.

In a candid profile from Wikileaks, of Cowen as the Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader, then US Ambassador Thomas Foley described Cowen as " burly and brusque " saying that he had " a reputation of not being much concerned with his public image.

" Gibson was surly and brusque even with his teammates.

He's brusque, dour, and bored with life on Two-Bit.

Although brusque with his three wives, children, and neighbors, he is wealthy, courageous, and powerful among the people of his village.

With the advantages of a vigorous constitution and a good person and carriage, but with the drawbacks of a meagre legal equipment, a constitutional shyness and timidity, and an over-rapid, brusque, and indistinct utterance, he began practice at Culpeper Courthouse, Virginia.

I have often marvelled at the friendship of these two antipodal men ... Markham was forthright, brusque, and on occasion, domineering, taking life with grim and serious concern ... Vance, on the other hand, was volatile, debonair, and possessed of a perpetual Juvenalian cynicism ... ( The Greene Murder Case )

A bright and active girl, she grows increasingly fond of her older brother, though is regularly annoyed with his brusque nature.

The marquis's younger brother, Jean Antoine Riquetti, the bailli ( d. 1794 ), served with distinction in the navy, but his brusque manners made success at court impossible.

Husain, and the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, like John Wilkins who also broke free from the nationalist Bengal school and embraced Modernism instead, with its Post-Impressionist colors, Cubist forms and brusque, Expressionistic styles.

For the most part Neil responds to Brent ’ s antics with apparent indifference or bemusement, although he is brusque and assertive after Brent calls him pathetic for socializing with the staff – which Brent has been failing miserably to do himself.

" Garran however offered a different view, saying that " those who knew him well knew that under a brusque exterior he was the kindest of men ", and his reputation had to some degree been created by misrepresentation.

To adults, Brahms was often brusque and sarcastic ( again, like Beethoven ), and he often alienated other people.

From the highest peaks the land slopes down to hilly areas, ( not always, though ; sometimes there is a brusque transition from the mountains to the plains ) and then to the upper, and then the lower the great Padan Plain.

Shot on location in the Valley of Fire in Nevada, the film was plagued by poor weather, Peckinpah's renewed drinking and his brusque firing of 36 crew members.

She does not say much, and consequently appears brusque, but her speech at Morpheus ' wake in The Wake reveals her sympathy and feeling for him.

He was very brief and brusque, was indifferent and gave short replies to all the questions.

Bruce, the brusque bartender, throws him out after spotting Corwin, now low on funds, reaching for the bottle.

After a brusque hearing before a military tribunal, he and the Count are both sentenced to the firing squad the next morning, by an officer who obviously regrets the task.

This officer, brusque man of genius, rode a young horse and untamed that, frightened by the noise of the guns, dug his feet on the ground refusing to move.

*** softeners reduce the force of what would be a brusque demand.

I had already heard about the brusque approach taken by the Americans during house searches early on.