The violinist Gil Shaham played the solo line with a warm, focused but never overly pretty tone, and perfectly characterized the work's anguished and occasionally angry (in the assertive movement, particularly) spirit.
"The educational level and history of activism in the tightly knit gay community has led to a very assertive movement". Gay men with AIDS have a harder time staying in denial than other patients do, he says.
As soon as he has retreated a respectful distance, stop your assertive movement and relax.
She began with Giacinto Scelsi's "Cinque Incantesimi" (1953), a set of assertive, gnarly movements in which short, quietly rumbling bass figures and staccato chord bursts coalesce into surprisingly picturesque miniature dramas.
The orthodoxy of a resurgent and assertive atheist movement, one with great sway in a place like Cambridge, holds that religious belief is incompatible with intellectual activity.
The national motto here is said to be "Don't get involved," but in a matter of weeks a new and increasingly assertive civic movement known as the "self-convened neighborhood assemblies" has sprung up.
Last year I argued that an assertive political movement by Muslims in America might be timely and helpful.
Redemptorist activists have become increasingly assertive in Vietnamese movements for democracy and human rights, and some churches and parishes have become centers of dissent.
Cow protection has been a trigger for sectarian violence throughout modern Indian history and its resurgence since 2015 has been linked to an increasingly assertive Hindu nationalist movement.
Throughout this movement, assertive strings and brass are set against more-wistful woodwinds for diversity of colour, much as Beethoven does in the second movement of his Symphony No. 5.
China's leaders are trying to rein in a growing and increasingly assertive liberal intellectual movement, criticizing prominent academics and authors in speeches, forbidding newspapers from running their articles and punishing or shutting down publishers who have brought out their work.
