The phrase "assertive gesture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical action that conveys confidence or decisiveness, often in communication or interaction contexts.
Example: "During the meeting, she made an assertive gesture to emphasize her point, drawing everyone's attention."
Alternatives: "confident gesture" or "decisive gesture".
As Leon Wieseltier notes, if President Obama spoke in Kiev on his coming European trip, that alone would be an assertive gesture, like J.F.K. going to Berlin.
Nouvel's intention is not, he states, to create a New York-style skyscraper, but to make a recessive as well as an assertive gesture.
If you're in any kind of disagreement, locking eyes is an assertive gesture that helps you to communicate the confidence that what you say is true.
These are assertive gestures, exhilarating in their confidence – "Enough had.
Transparent textures and assertive gestures are essential here, and that was what the Juilliard players provided.
White, who played the game, takes a more sanguine approach than his predecessor, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, who once fined Joaquin Andujar for making assertive gestures on the mound and set up first-level balk alerts.
It encourages a singer like Ms. Martin to break through the gap and make tellingly assertive gestures, as she did in a beautiful rendition of "What'll I Do?" Simply by bearing down on the title phrase, as if she were pleading to a friend for advice, she applied her stamp to a standard that everyone else interprets from a long-distance perspective.
Still, the resumption of bomber flights was the latest in a series of assertive gestures by Russia, emboldened by windfall petroleum wealth and angered over what it has called American and NATO aggressiveness, including plans for a missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland, analysts said.
But this exhibition, revealing to us these frail but assertive gestures, fishermen's huts "caught in the awkwardness of the situation," demonstrates that parks can also cover up things lost.
With the paintings of the next artist, Jorg Immendorff, we are given a primary reason for the absence of place in so much West German art and the resulting need for the assertive and restless expressive gesture.
Past advice from experts such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has encouraged women to combine an assertive message with smiles, friendly gestures, and other non-threatening and traditionally feminine behavior.
