Her very manner was gentler, her mode of speech less assertive.

On the other hand, he's less assertive about what and how much Kitty eats.

Moreover, there was good being done of a less assertive but equally commendable nature.

Johnston's less assertive and altogether more flexible manner showed a young player of intriguingly responsive temperament.

In the figure of the other man, Walter Sayers, there was something less aggressive, less assertive.

They were less confident and less assertive.

Linton, however, was less assertive than Harlan.

HAVE post feminist women become less assertive?

But they have been a less assertive voice in the government, choosing to take a more collaborative approach.

On average, he wrote, women are more interested in people than things, more empathetic, more neurotic, and less assertive.

She said she feared others less assertive than herself might just roll over and lose the free medical care access.

You'll find that you're less assertive than normal, which other people might misinterpret as a signal to voice their opinions!

Both men seemed somehow to have lost their confident bearing-seemed to have shrunken into smaller, less assertive, meaner beings.

Bradley believes her year there left her less assertive, and she picks battles only after weighing the personal cost against the principle.

That Arúna had, for ally, the spirit of the ages; more formidable, if less assertive, than the transient spirit of the age.

Since the change which came over the complexion of matters in his world, Cole was much less assured and less assertive than before.