What is "assertive"

Usage examples of "assertive".

That gives them the enthusiasm to be more assertive in their accusatory format.

The assertive blatancy of his clothes was just part of the malevolent animal magnetism that had affected Bond from the beginning.

Moreover, governments throughout the world have become more assertive in exercising territorial jurisdiction over the hitherto ostensibly extraterritorial Net.

His hair and forehead furnished a recessional note in a personality that was in all other respects obtrusive and assertive.

This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection-slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.

He was never blunt or assertive as Adams could be, but subtle, serene by all appearances, always polite, soft-spoken, and diplomatic, if somewhat remote.

She believes nurses could do a lot more if they became more assertive.

I wanted to become more assertive, but what if, after gulping one or more ZAP pills, I underwent a complete transmutation and became a totally different man?

They had such an un risen look, dull raisin eyes, pinched plugs of dough for their noses, rounded plugs of dough for their assertive chins.

Philadelphia, the one to have taken the most assertive stand against slavery was the young physician Benjamin Rush, who from the time of the First Congress had been as close to all that went on as anyone not a delegate could have been and who, in another few weeks, would himself be elected to Congress, as one of the new Pennsylvania delegation.

He indicated things by dots and dashes, instead of by good hard assertive lines.

We talked once with a Western man of considerable age and experience who had the placid mind that is sometimes, and may more and more become, the characteristic of those who live in flat countries of illimitable horizons, who said that New Yorkers, State and city, all had an assertive sort of smartness that was very disagreeable to him.

She was a good old American girl, as educated and sassy and assertive as any.

Again I experienced the strange delight of spadousness of that luxuriousness which was now somewhat faded but still redolent, still assertive in a patchy way as once the brown stone bannisters had asserted themselves through the melting snow.

This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.