Sentence examples for assertion of self from inspiring English sources

To run for the Senate after the carnage of the last eight years is nothing if not an extraordinary assertion of self.

T-Pain's deployment of Auto-Tune is a similar assertion of self, no different in kind from the older, more traditional tricks of tape-splicing, double-tracking the voice, and adding a little reverb.

She was unprepared for the child's roaring greediness, his assertion of self, and for the violence of love that swamped her, that made her shake with what she knew must come next.

Only the slow introduction to the finale lost momentum, but this was quickly regained in the fast and furious Allegro, where the defiant assertion of self and ethos could not fail to leave its impression.

But choosing a friend is more often than not an assertion of self, an expression of agency: your choice announces not just to the world, but to yourself, who you are, what you crave, what you admire.

The slow passage from love beads to Lyft through the performative assertion of self may be the least claimed legacy of the baby-boomer revolution certainly, it's the least celebrated.

It is an assertion of self-determination and popular sovereignty.

The insistence on race is, in part, an assertion of self-determination, a declaration that no church is culturally neutral.

Brushing aside any assault on his inner "self", he filed this emergency under "physique", not "psychology", a stunning assertion of self-will.

Movies need to maintain their place in the market, and assertion of self-worth is always a good way to shore up a flagging concern.

The agent was unmoved by my assertion of self-importance, and directed me to a growing line of disgruntled travelers, a mix of fuming businessmen and exhausted vacationers.