Mostly, though, she's pushed into shouty singing on "I'm Dat Chick" and "Feelin Me Right Now," which feel like boxing-ring-tough assertions of dominance.
It was also a forceful assertion of his dominance of the government's legal and law enforcement establishment, a position of power all of his predecessors have sought, but few ever obtained.
Like the Hollywood westerns it references, it's a story of economic imperialism as an assertion of male dominance, the political implications of colonisation hanging in the air like stale sweat.
These works transcend their often juvenile genre, partly through their assertion of female dominance (or at least indifference) but mainly on the strength of Ms. Takano's rich, muted colors and dry, almost pastel-like acrylic surfaces.
Ostensibly this was a concert — her first in New York in several years, she noted — but her songs were mere pretense, compared with the night's myriad other functions: runway show, theater performance, assertion of social dominance.
Torture was their rebellion against the power of people with a kind of conscience that they did not share; it was an assertion of their dominance over that kind of thinking.
Allowing such prosecution to go forward in American criminal courts for persons and events having so little to do with America goes way beyond anything proposed by Prof. Yoo or Alberto Gonzalez, and is a chilling assertion of American dominance.
There are so many more lasting rewards to be achieved by making a woman smile -- by encouraging her and doing whatever we can to make her day a little easier and a little brighter -- than by belittling her in some comical testosterone-fueled assertion of masculine "dominance".
Indeed, the dome was designed by its maker to be placeless, meant to be plunked down anywhere from the Arctic to the tropics as an assertion of the global industrial dominance.
