Sentence examples for assertive strokes from inspiring English sources

Gentle sea-blue washes are punctuated by bold, assertive strokes in bright pink and yellow.

But the visitors knew they had to bat well after resuming on 202-4 and it was ten Doeschate who met the challenge with some assertive strokes.

It was always more an attitude than a coherent style: some of its broadly common characteristics included spurning neo-Classical standards and practices, embracing ordinary reality, contemporary events and nature in all forms, and employing assertive, emotionally charged brush strokes.

Stokes, in at No3 again, brought up a timely first fifty in one-day internationals with a huge straight six off Maxwell, and produced a controlled, assertive innings of orthodox attacking strokes, before skying Faulkner's slower ball on 70.

More importantly, the voices were articulating how shapes were materialized on canvas: a thin but assertive blue-grey vertical line, adjacent to a gestural white triangle, positioned above two thick horizontal brush strokes of melding blue and white… I started to feel less foolish, arms up over my face, because here was the boat.

Be assertive!

Lampard more assertive.

Women are more assertive.

"They're too assertive.

Practice being assertive, but considerate.

And they are quite assertive.