Sentence examples for assertion of social from inspiring English sources
It is an assertion of social and artistic responsibility to insist that forms have meanings.
Gay weddingmoons revive the civic aspirations of the early bridal tours; they're an assertion of social belonging& 8212a statement, "we are here".
Pageantry of both the dramatic and nondramatic sort continues to play a significant role in the legitimization of political actions and the assertion of social prestige.
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.
It's almost impossible for a blunt assertion of social rank to win an argument in contemporary America, or perhaps any America, but the strategy had absolutely no chance against the fan favorite Bethenny, whose allergy to elitism is an ongoing theme of the show.
Nor, for the same reason, can it be understood as an assertion of social relativism: the assertion that for girls to exercise naked is shameful in Athens is not opposed to the claim that it is not shameful in Sparta.
An assertion of the social rights of the community over the expressive rights of individuals?
The closer our death fears are to the surface, the more we cleave to social norms – not necessarily those of wider society, but any group we have chosen to identify with (on this definition even support for, say, Islamic State, is an assertion of a "social norm" and therefore an extension of our "immortality projects". Suicide bombers ultimately act out of fear of death).
In fact, Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine, as pacific, altruistic, and uncompetitive, to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist social model.
This was a stunning assertion of the primacy of social conservatism over terribly real security challenges.
Who knows, perhaps a bit of social assertion isn't such a bad thing after all.
