Yet her manner was entirely free from pretension or self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
This "I AM" is not the petulant self-assertion of the relative ego. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
He smiled radiantly, with the self-assertion of youth, the joy of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
My masculine conceit rose and demanded an opportunity of self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
"And what if I won't go?" said the girl, with a feeble effort at self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
It completes an act of national self-assertion with one of unprecedented generosity. From Wordnik.com. [Divorce, American Style] Reference
Competition, money and land greed, self-assertion -- all things that are the anthitheses of. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
In his first youthful arrogance of self-assertion he had miscalculated with Ruth Van Ostend. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The one ideal, the Greek, breathes an air of self-assertion; the other one of self-abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Furthermore, his self-assertion was recognized as too often a display of arrogance and vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
The true man is both meek and self-reliant, humble and yet by no means incapable of self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Jonson's mental self-assertion and disdainful glee in his own superiority to the weakness he satirizes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
"I fail even now to understand," says the old lady, with a somewhat tremulous attempt at self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Although with these distinguished surroundings, Gen. LEE had no undue pride, reserve, or self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
Avoid bluster, self-assertion, gossip, levity or light talk, too much laughter, excitement and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
"I think myself that men might be allowed to continue to monopolize the right of impudent self-assertion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
But there came a day when he did care, sitting up to demand food with a great deal of his old self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
Black separatism came into existence in this country in the late '60s as an effort of prideful self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Sexual Separatism] Reference
But life is activity, the soul is a motive force, self-assertion and self-preservation are heaven's first law. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
None the less, their self-assertion has nowhere reached the extreme of spiritual alienation from their environment. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
I recovered my self-possession and talked naturally: my spirits rose, and my natural self-assertion returned to me. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
He had come with a goodly stock of self-assertion and sudden-gained dignity, but they withered under the inquiring gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
On the other hand, the habits of industry, ambition, self-assertion, and studying in the evening urge him to stay at home and study. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
And yet the time will come when we shall have to face danger for the sake of brotherhood, as we do now for the sake of self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
When he had to speak or write on behalf of what he believed to be the truth, it was from no motive of self-assertion or combativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
But the very vigor of her character, its force of self-assertion, unfitted her to be the complement to any but a very yielding nature. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
During all the period of the preaching of the kingdom he never hesitated to assert himself whenever need for such self-assertion arose. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
War is an escape, for a people, from a kind of subjectivism, from the evils of a self-love to perhaps the greater evils of self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
Richard, two years younger than Everett by the calendar, was at least three older than he in size, appearance, habits, and self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Self-preservation is impossible; self-assertion is a challenge to the assertiveness of other selves, as well as a hastener of dissolution. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Actual social status in existing American democracy is the result of a balance of forces one of which is the individual's power of self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
In all his moods, whether of blustering self-assertion or reluctant surrender, of canny craft or protesting generosity, Mr. MCKINNEL was equally admirable. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
Not in the ecclesiastical arena, not in polemic for a creed, not in self-assertion and disputings, do we please our Master best, but in the simple service of love. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
At present it is interesting to follow the geographical growth of the state which has become so troublesome, and whose self-assertion has increased according to its size. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
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