self-assertive

How To Use self-assertive In A Sentence

• Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering. On being called a bigot and/or racist
• Losing her parents at a relatively young age had no doubt forced her to be self-assertive. Tough Customer
• Here are a couple more suggestions, just because I don't want to deprive readers the potential benefit of fellow squirrel-haters' wisdom, no matter how sordid: Fisher cats was one Brattleboro, Vt., resident's response to my observation that the squirrels seem to have grown more self-assertive since our dog died. Lessons for Squirrels
• The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish.
• It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively - which means to live authentically-is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding - from others and also from themselves. Nathaniel Branden 
• My own falsely self-assertive and harmful, unfree ego gets drawn into the expansive heart of God. Tattoos on the Heart
• his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy
• The best type is energetic but reserved; for the 'bluenose' does not consider it necessary to be self-assertive. The Canadian Type
• Another Full Moon, which contains the self-assertive “Vertical,” is also notable for “My Position in the History of the Twentieth Century,” in which she reflects on her good fortune in being somewhere else when Hitler was killing Jews in Europe: Ruth Fainlight.
• A couple of weeks later when the specimens finally arrived a worker planting one of them along Lexington Avenue — hundreds of them were going in across the neighborhood — informed me that paving stones and railings, to protect the saplings from our self-assertive canine population, were also on the way. Embracing, If Not Fully Hugging, the Trees