Failure was not a possibility until it was brought abruptly to his attention.

In the final sentence our attention is abruptly brought back from the remote horizon to the observer himself.

Michael began to march forward, only to be brought abruptly back by Houston's hand on the collar of her duster.

Wolf was brought abruptly back to the present by a red light on the instrument panel before him.

Vizaphmal touched a second wire, and the revolution of the disk was brought abruptly to an end.

This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening.

And was brought abruptly to full alertness, vigilance, by the flame of rage that filled the eyes thrust so close.

Then I was brought abruptly back to focus by a story on page 20.

Nicholas' face sprang into the sunlight as if abruptly brought into focus in the center of a lens.

And her Westernized style of living was abruptly brought to a halt.