It was crude, self-conscious and self-assertive; provincial and formative, rather than formed.

The more shattered and unsure he grew, the more self-assertive was she.

The other, whose name was Buckley, was bigger and much more self-assertive.

The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker.

He had thought the man self-assertive, over self-confident, while disagreeably cringing in manner.

The waves of feeling, half self-assertive, half repentant, ebbed and flowed.

Where Washington had been polite and ingratiating, DuBois was self-assertive and, frequently, aggressive.

His was a firm mind, sure of itself, but not self-assertive.

It was sympathetic; never self-assertive, as the hard, brilliant Irish intellect so often is.

On the surface all is new writing, clean and self-assertive.

Strong for his years and self-assertive, the boys feared him.

Margot looked suddenly anxious, and at the same time self-assertive.

She was rudely intellectual and violently self-assertive, though kind-hearted withal.

Aunt Felicia should not have been so self-assertive, so tactless.

Correct everything self-assertive, which includes nine tenths of all vulgarity.

There was an entire absence of the self-spirit, that is the self-assertive, the self-confident spirit.