She acquired a brittle fluent manner of talk, but her idea of conversation was to be vivacious and assertive and above all merely to keep things going.
Thus the merely assertive man will usually get undue credit on first hearing while the tactful man generally wins his standing only on prolonged acquaintance.
There are also indications that the ideal military hero is not, for all the people, the self-assertive type that I have described above, though this is doubtless the prevalent one.
According to this argument based on self-assertive aggressiveness, the boor was the man possessed of a strong personality, while the gentleman was relatively "impersonal.
Assertive individualism, while allowed a certain range among the samurai, always had its well-marked limits.
Where all is interesting there is no special assertive point of interest, and for one I prefer my scenic meal served thus.
In the days before steam became the almost universal power, and the modern builder and engineer had not disfigured the country with their assertive erections, how doubly beautiful England must have been!
I only knew there was something about it that won the heart, as a too conscious orassertive beauty never does.
Strangers, Englishmen on tour, are easily recognised by their self-assertive demeanour and ill-bred offences against the solemn etiquette of the railway company.
His mother, Theodora, as she had been crowned empress, was regent in her own right, and she quickly proved herself one of the most self-assertive of Byzantine princesses.
Theodora, with all her modest demeanor, was self-assertive and proud, and as a devoted iconodule she caused her husband many an unhappy hour during his lifetime; and as soon as he was dead she set to work to undo his policy.
As his release approaches, the tone of native confidence becomes moreassertive in Russell's letter.
The labor bodies of the State demand the abolition of convict competition, and the press becomes more assertive in urging an investigation of both penitentiaries.
Instead of being assertive and rather insentient, he becomes wavering and sensitive.
This second nucleus, the nucleus born of recoil, is the nuclear origin of all the great nuclei of the voluntary system, which are the nuclei of assertive individualism.
He congratulated her on heeding his advice to be assertive and demanding.
The confident, assertive demeanor manifested by the analyst would not have been questioned coming from a man, but they would not let a woman get away with it.
What's bred in the bone will come out in the blood," she said, "and bad blood is more assertive than good.
The negro problem cannot be worked out by any simple little rule o' thumb, and the negro will always be the loser by any such melodramatic display of super-assertive backbone and misinformed conscience.
Miss Maybridge was standing with her back to Mr. Fotheringay, washing glasses; the others were watching him, more or less amused by the present ineffectiveness of the assertive method.
As the great ship slowed to a standstill, a boat-load of assertive officials hurried on board.
There grew up a caste, its members equal and cordial among themselves, but self-assertive and haughty to all besides.
As dogmatic, however, those philosophies, it may be further said, are assertive likewise, because in such a method the principle is only asserted and is not truly proved.
However, the distinction between Scepticism and the New Academy rests in the form of expression only, and is thus not a great one: indeed it is founded only on the mania of the Sceptics to cut off and to shun any sort of assertive statement.
Trollope, long a traveling employé in the post-office service, was a man of very assertive and somewhat commonplace nature.
If we put the sentence in the passive form, "The man was found dead," it will be seen that dead is more than a mere modifier; it belongs to man through the assertive force of was found.
Give the effect of changing resting in 1, paragraph 2, to the assertive form.
The assertive force of the predicate came seems to extend over both verbs.
She was presiding at the breakfast-table for the first time in many years--she looked somewhat sad and listless, yet lovelier so than in all the usual pride and assertive arrogance of her beauty.
By its aid a flat and otherwise uninteresting subject can be made attractive and vigorous, and for general purposes of effective display its value will be considerably enhanced and its assertive character emphasised.
Owing to its intrinsic merits and peculiarly assertive character it has created an enormous demand for its own productions.
She has much the same curved back, and much the same aggressive, self-assertive features.
The awakening, assertivemale thing in him whispered that the flush on her cheeks and the shining eyes were indicative of something.
An assertive juryman, who disapproves of business being so rushed as not to permit of a hanging, expresses the view aloud that it is all put on.
Min seemed to be less self-assertive than her companion.
Her manner grew quite self-assertive as she replied, as though expressing herself quite settled the question.
By early 1971 the Ceausescu regime again became more assertive of its independent line in foreign policy.
