How To Use Self-assertive In A Sentence
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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.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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W Davis no relation to A. P. Davis, but he changed its name from the Reclamation Service to the Bureau of Reclamation, as a reminder to its self-assertive staff of their subservience to Interior Department headquarters.
Colossus
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However, Mr. Lassman, who describes his clientele as "heads of luxury brands, heads of finance, rather than the nouveau riche," and counts among his services taking care of the smallest details of their journeys—including, "What table they have; what's in the room when they arrive; the room is ready when they get there"—shared my brother's unsentimental view of the world, but thought his technique unnecessarily self-assertive.
The Art of Pulling Strings
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For instance, Mrs. Pertonwaithe and Mrs. Wickson exercised tremendous social power in the university town, and from them emanated the sentiment that I was a too-forward and self-assertive young woman with a mischievous penchant for officiousness and interference in other persons 'affairs.
Chapter 6: Adumbrations
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These defects are interesting, because they represent the nature of Milton as it was then, noble and disinterested to the height of imagination, but self-assertive, unmellowed, angular.
Life of John Milton
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Being unevolved, they are of the lower nature, instinctive, self-assertive, confused, possessive and protective of their immediate environment.
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Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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The meek man of the Bible is simply what we call the gentle-man -- the man without swagger or arrogance, not self-assertive or forthputting, but honorable and considerate.
Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion
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If you want good relationships, you must have the confidence to be self-assertive when required.
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If you want good relationships, you must have the confidence to be self-assertive when required.
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Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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A couple of weeks later when the specimens finally arrived a worker planting one of them along Lexington Avenue — hundreds of them were going in across the neighborhood — informed me that paving stones and railings, to protect the saplings from our self-assertive canine population, were also on the way.
Embracing, If Not Fully Hugging, the Trees
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Another Full Moon, which contains the self-assertive “Vertical,” is also notable for “My Position in the History of the Twentieth Century,” in which she reflects on her good fortune in being somewhere else when Hitler was killing Jews in Europe:
Ruth Fainlight.
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The best type is energetic but reserved; for the 'bluenose' does not consider it necessary to be self-assertive.
The Canadian Type
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his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy
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My own falsely self-assertive and harmful, unfree ego gets drawn into the expansive heart of God.
Tattoos on the Heart
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It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively - which means to live authentically-is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding - from others and also from themselves. Nathaniel Branden
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The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish.
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Here are a couple more suggestions, just because I don't want to deprive readers the potential benefit of fellow squirrel-haters' wisdom, no matter how sordid: Fisher cats was one Brattleboro, Vt., resident's response to my observation that the squirrels seem to have grown more self-assertive since our dog died.
Lessons for Squirrels
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Losing her parents at a relatively young age had no doubt forced her to be self-assertive.
Tough Customer