Even the abrupt and anticlimatic conclusion tells a story.

It probably meant the abrupt conclusion of a promising career, but he could hesitate no longer.

In the film's abrupt and rather brutal conclusion, the gods intervene to punish Walter for his earlier transgression.

It is a gruesome form of death, and the baby experiences extreme pain as his life comes to an abrupt and premature conclusion.

He said nothing more, but the look in his eyes told Reed that the captain had reached the same abrupt conclusion.

An anguished cry from the room ahead brought the argument to an abrupt conclusion.

In some modern music, namely heavy metal, it is "often employed to emphasize a particular beat or signal an abrupt conclusion to a passage."

"Cardassians will never accept an abrupt conclusion to the annexation," another man cut in.

It is an abrupt and unsatisfying conclusion to an otherwise wonderfully told story.

He spends several unhappy years in prison, and the story comes to an abrupt, melodramatic conclusion at the end of the war.