The phrase "assertive form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing grammatical structures that express confidence or certainty in statements.
Example: "In English, the assertive form is often used to convey strong opinions or beliefs, such as in the sentence 'I believe this is the best solution.'"
Alternatives: "declarative form" or "confident structure".
Over and over again at Howard, the conflict between conciliation with the white world and a more assertive form of politics animated campus activism.
The primitivist version of Daoism, however, can religiously take a more assertive form that nature does endorse a particular normative dao, albeit not a human one (particularly one in discourse form).
His disagreement rather takes the subtler and less assertive form of an immanent critique, pointing out that each thinker's existentialist philosophy ends up being inconsistent with its own starting point: "starting from a philosophy of the world's lack of meaning, it ends up by finding a meaning and depth in it" (MS, 42).
Sennett attributed this to the fact that the software was unable to accommodate a conversational approach and hence forced participants into a more assertive form of communication, point followed by counterpoint, and, as a result, the flow of ideas was linear and hierarchical rather than lateral and inclusive.
Mr. Roche was not pleased by Mr. Scully's view that his assertive forms somehow reflected the bombastic and overbearing elements of the United States during the Vietnam War.
Koolhaas is known for assertive sculptural forms, complex spaces and dramatic relationships with the urban context.
With glitchy vocal samples and assertive snare hits forming a rhythmic framework for otherwise gossamer synth work, the song's journey begins in real life before entering the digital realm.
Be properly assertive, be kind.
In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu ("A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"), and Mayakovsky's poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content.
In their refined, elongated forms and assertive balance, his sculpted figures reflect the Mannerist tradition in Italian art (e.g., "Bather No. 2," 1956 57).
