He had been diffident in the opening 50 minutes, operating in the long shadow cast by his half-back partner Nikola Matawalu, but became assertive from the moment the scrum-half went off, one of the few players on the evening not interested in bashing his way through the defensive line, his subtle touches relief from the brutality of the exchanges.
It was both an assertive start and a moment that seemed to capture the essence of uncut, premier cru Welbeck: the fine movement to find the space; the slight, but telling, lack of razor edge.
The attack was sharp and assertive, and the entire moment turned out to be emblematic of the game itself.
The moment an assertive black woman expresses her opinion, she becomes an Angry Black Woman.
He has been assertive, dominant, unbowed by the moment, unfailingly cool under that still-searing spotlight.
QUESTION FROM DAVE : What's Obama's strategy toward Israel now? after shalit, qaddafi, etc. DAVID REMNICK: I don't think there is an assertive one, not at the moment.
THE image of Europe as an increasingly assertive challenger to America erodes the moment one sets foot in Romania.
But the moment a half-way assertive chief minister takes office in one of the regions, he will want to appoint his own top civil servants to do battle with Whitehall.
For one brief day, a presidential inauguration may be a celebration of freedom, democracy and of national unity, and in calling upon Americans to "seize the moment", Obama gave an assertive articulation of the liberal agenda he hopes to implement.
