Usually, the drunken sailor was not so self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference
I'm not self-assertive, I'm timid, and I lack confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
To most of us he seemed too self-assertive, too self-assured. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Strong for his years and self-assertive, the boys feared him. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
Stand upright and do not be either cringing or vulgarly self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
The more shattered and unsure he grew, the more self-assertive was she. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Interestingly, it's not one I picked myself (I went with self-assertive). From Wordnik.com. [*laugh*] Reference
The other, whose name was Buckley, was bigger and much more self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
You need for a wife some one not too self-assertive, and who believes in you. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
A mighty race, self-assertive, full of vitality and will, is the goal of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Losing her parents at a relatively young age had no doubt forced her to be self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Customer] Reference
Secure in the conviction that they possess the great desideratum, they become self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Disability of the Jew] Reference
The visitor was dressed in very pronounced clothes, and carried himself with a self-assertive swagger. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
He was shy, and unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
The self-assertive instincts are to considerable extent still dormant for lack of stimulus to call them forth. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It was the bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
He was no longer harshly self-assertive, vainglorious, or brutally frank concerning the passion that consumed him. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
One of the most self-assertive of birds of the island is also one of the least — the sun-bird (CINNYRIS FRENATA). From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Three of them - a generous proportion - were men children: the clever Gren, the self-assertive Veggy, the quiet Poas. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
He found her far more poised and self-assertive than she had been as a youth, and his face had turned dark with anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Alibi]
The other — an independent, self-assertive, ill-mannered imp — lived in and about the house for a couple of months. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
The other is a parody of the self-assertive economic actor, as rapacious as any multinational, who uses her sexuality for profit. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Madame Roland, but she had neither the soaring intellect nor the self-assertive tendencies that mark the representative of a cause. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Machiavelli, admired the self-assertive man who knows what he wants and acts resolutely and intelligently in the endeavor to get it. From Wordnik.com. [LIBERALISM] Reference
The meek-looking gentleman arose hastily and offered his seat in the car to the self-assertive woman who had entered and glared at him. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Brotherhood, in which Rossetti, whose disposition throughout his life was extremely self-assertive, or even domineering, took the lead. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
He had known her as passionately self-assertive; and he could not now accustom himself to the condition of apathy in which he found her. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Min seemed to be less self-assertive than her companion. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall] Reference
A self-assertive fellow, without a sense of other people. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
But Thorpe was too self-assertive to be a slavish imitator. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
His was a firm mind, sure of itself, but not self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited. From Wordnik.com. [Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians] Reference
Tasmania of latter days, the self-assertive and domineering traits of the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
And we know that she will return from Wonderland empowered and self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters: Watch]
She has much the same curved back, and much the same aggressive, self-assertive features. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
A "smart alec" or "smart aleck" is a person regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive and impudent. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
Designs from his hands were full, splendid and self-assertive; harmony and proportion were there. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
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