Sentence examples for assertive figures from inspiring English sources

"In governments with assertive figures, humor becomes a form of social reprisal against those who exercise disproportionate power," Bonilla said.

'In governments with assertive figures, humor becomes a form of social reprisal against those who exercise disproportionate power.'.

Sergio Busquets was magnificently reassuring, a shambling, spindly, oddly assertive figure, often sprinting not towards the ball or the player but some pocket of space two moves down the line.

While promoting a film of his own earlier this year, Crowe lamented the loss of the "archetypal Australian man", the gruff, assertive figure who "appears stuck in his ways but is, in fact, quite an open person".

Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Ellis Cheever Soderbergh admired Fishburne's ability to portray an emphatic and assertive figure in previous films.

Bill is still searching for certitude in assertive father figures".

The image of a manly, tough and assertive male figure comes to mind.

Its second movement, rich in repeated brass figures, assertive percussion and sliding strings, is a study in energetic cacophony.

(The only other openly devotional figure here is by Nolde's compatriot, Georg Kolbe, a painter-turned-sculptor whose 1930 "Pietà" depicts a grieving Mary kneeling on one knee. During the Nazi regime, Kolbe produced works of a more assertive type, idealized figures of warriors and athletes).

His 10-minute dissection of the 1945 hit Since I Fell for You – begun delicately in flicks and hints, hurried and leaned on by assertive left-hand figures, then turned dreamy in an unaccompanied episode – sets the standard for the set.

Maritime tensions, territorial disputes in Asia's contested waters and unease at a more robust and assertive China will all figure as part of the debate.