Punching out "The Best Is Yet to Come," that optimistic swinger by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, she bore down heavily on the phrase "Come the day you're mine," as if aggressively asserting her claim in a romantic gold rush.
Higher up a series of market-rate apartments have private terraces, as if to assert their independence.
As if to assert their control over Trenton in her absence, the Legislators contended he lied under oath in his 1999 confirmation hearings about his response to profiling when he was state attorney general.
And in a nod to conformity, standard-issue Interstate symbols dot the highways, as if to assert that I-278 has at last replaced the Gowanus Expressway in the public imagination.
As if to assert her proud femininity Ms. Leavel's Florence clackety-clacks around the stage in a sumptuous array of period pumps and for unfathomable reasons goes through more costume changes than Marlene Dietrich probably did in her entire career as a concert performer.
If the work sometimes seems a little arch, it is more than offset by a 2005 self-portrait, "Diagnosis/Surgery Cut," in which her brooding, unsmiling face, with black eyes and heavy dark brows looming large against a background of red floral wallpaper, stares intently at the viewer as if to assert its own continuity.
With the eye of a Berenice Abbott, she photographed trains, street corners and edges of buildings, and injected her own particular sensibility by putting her body on the ledge of a staircase or curved around the corner of a street, as if to assert the self in an anonymous urban environment.
A few preclinical students reported that their personal wellness is generally linked to their competence as physicians, asserting that "if we sacrifice our own health from studying too long, staying up too late, stressing out too much about exams, we can't take care of other people if we don't watch our own health first".
If one interprets Locke as asserting that there are real essences for individuals, and these essences are not indexed to a specific time, then this might have implications for how we interpret Locke on diachronic identity.
