NOUN
- the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others
- the act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner
How To Use self-assertion In A Sentence
- That is because economic strength leads to political and cultural self-assertion. Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West
- There are obviously many degrees of cultural self-assertion, cultural defensiveness, cultural porousness and cultural boundaries.
- Imperial self-assertion required first of all that Italy seize full control of the colonies it already possessed.
- Decisions on their own depression and self-assertion perk this is a woman.
- This kind of self-assertion and self-negation ran through the whole life of Donne, and only through a compromise of both sides, did he achieve an ultimate inward harmony.
- Two nations, born out of violence, continued through the first two decades after Partition to draw a line in the sand for their mutual self-assertion.
- We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
- At first hearing, the almost pathological self-effacement of Tim (the mild-mannered bong-builder who goes head to head with lagered-up Terry the law-abider in the Streets 'Socratic dialogue The Irony of It All) seems about as far from the defiant self-assertion of the Who's "Hope I die before I get old" as you could possibly get. The Guardian World News
- So much change must have come with the new-found self-assertion.
- When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature. Maurice Guest