What's the difference between berserk and brusque?

Berserk


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berserker

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said that a man had gone berserk in a DSS office.
  • (2) Once I’d accidentally picked up a bottle of squash that was not sugar free and she went absolutely berserk.” There was no history of neglect or child abuse.
  • (3) Cumberbatch wasn't aware of the second event that night, because by then his name was trending on Twitter and his phone was going berserk.
  • (4) If Jesse's dead, Walt goes berserk and doesn't cook and Gus has nothing.
  • (5) The result of this berserk desire for Hestonianism is that more than one contestant has already been chastised for cooking the sort of nice, normal food that people might actually want to eat.
  • (6) So, in accordance with the oldest law in economics, prices go berserk.
  • (7) If you Google “Lindy West” and “Roosh”, the first eight results are from Roosh’s various websites: “Lindy West Brags About Getting an Abortion”, “Lindy West Leaving Jezebel, Still a Whale”, “Fat Feminist Lindy West Goes Berserk Because She No Longer Fits in Airplane Seats”, “The 9 Ugliest Feminists in America” (I’m #1!
  • (8) I went berserk when it was introduced and [my view] has not changed since,” Goldsmith said recently.
  • (9) He drowns his demons with alcohol and his drunkenness makes him an unreliable partner in the bootlegging business, but he'll defend his brothers with a berserker's passion when danger draws near.
  • (10) But that can appear false if the public perception is that it’s all just a reaction to that feedback.” The implication is that, if he really wants us to believe that he’s passionate, David Cameron needs to maintain his current berserk enthusiasm for everything until the day he dies.
  • (11) The deficit, in fact, is going down at a rate essentially identical to the rate it was projected to before Osborne's berserk 2010 slash and burn.
  • (12) No: the problem – absolutely nil cause for rejoicing – is that the process of purported regulatory reform, culminating in what sounds like a berserk pizza party in Ed Miliband's office in the earliest hours of Monday, has been transparently idiotic, even down to four Hacked Off reps sitting eyeing the pepperoni and cheese.
  • (13) Carroll, meanwhile, continued to serve as a berserker in the box, spreading chaos every time the ball was crossed towards him.
  • (14) They won best rap album for The Heist and beat Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, Kacey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran in the best new artist category and best rap performance for Thrift Shop over Drake's Started From the Bottom, Eminem's Berserk, Jay Z's Tom Ford and Kendrick Lamar's Swimmingpools.
  • (15) Browne, who described what Zevon did as song-noir, commented: "He had a very stern moral disposition as well as a willingness to take on this berserk persona.
  • (16) The key point is that a charity record lineup should resemble a variety show gone berserk, not an issue of Mojo.
  • (17) Opponents said it was Tea Party radicalism gone berserk.
  • (18) Xi visit shows China is dominant partner in a purely commercial coupling Read more “It has just gone berserk.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldsmith said he ‘went berserk’ when the idea of a third runway at Heathrow was first put forward.
  • (20) Zac Goldsmith MP still threatens to resign if there is a U-turn; Boris Johnson is going berserk .

Brusque


Definition:

  • (a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
  • (2) The cases of 2 women with histologically proven GCA-TA are presented in which, together with the most classical symptoms, they presented a brusque mental deterioration on initiation of the disease.
  • (3) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
  • (4) The second set of cops, they claim, were ruder and more brusque.
  • (5) He has also acquired a reputation for brusqueness with journalists ( he walked out of an interview with the Guardian in Iowa ) and, unusually for an American politician, he hardly ever smiles.
  • (6) Some critics labelled Sadik-Khan “brusque” and uncompromising; others wondered whether such labels tend to stick more easily to the relatively rare women in positions of power.
  • (7) It feels almost too obvious to point out that all of those complaints can be aimed right back at Sulzberger, specifically in relation to his generally astonishing, notably brusque and especially brutal firing of Abramson.
  • (8) Diuretics may be too brusque and lead to intracerebral haematoma.
  • (9) I’m scared of making generalisations, but there’s a brusque, down-to-earth humour where people tend to hit the nail on the head.
  • (10) The brusque, uncommunicative president she was hired to assist ("swathed in a whiskey mink, her eyes covered with enormous dark glasses, her head with a silk scarf in an equestrian pattern") was Phyllis Westberg.
  • (11) These interactions were: cool, efficient and rushed on one unit; casual, warm and somewhat superficial on the second unit; brusque and business-like on the third unit.
  • (12) 5 sparing diet a reduced serum cholesterol concentration was noted along with a noticeable rise of the cholic acid content in the bile with a not too brusque rise of the cholesterol level therein, which led to an increase of the cholate-cholesterol coefficient.
  • (13) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
  • (14) Her brusque humour frequently targeted celebrities, as well as herself.
  • (15) Then he railed at the club for not killing the stories regarding Pellegrini, an illustration of the Italian's brusque style, one which has not endeared him to players or some members of staff.
  • (16) Failure of reform Compared with the expenses horrors of 2009, such brusque Commons business may not qualify as a grade A parliamentary scandal.
  • (17) If the train brakes brusquely or the lights go out, I go into survival mode.” After the attacks, Alex wrote two harrowing blogposts about his experience that were widely read.
  • (18) Abramson, it has been reported, was "brusque" , "pushy", "mercurial".
  • (19) In any case, his brusque “lack of affect” provides one of the long-standing puzzles of the film: is he, too, a replicant?
  • (20) But in the governor’s brusque, “get it done” approach to city planning, he has also overseen mass evictions from overcrowded waterside kampung .

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