But a more assertive Houston turned up today.
Although unenthusiastic about working with his new superiors at the StB Koecher did not quit, nor did he take more assertive steps to turn himself in to American authorities.
In a group of eight Chopin nocturnes, she was frustratingly uneven, sometimes playing with poetic lyricism, sometimes turning assertive and unruly.
Sometimes the music turns assertive and declamatory, with melodic ideas unfolding in thick, note-crammed, textured chords, harmonically ambiguous yet grounded.
But with a twist of my body and some luck, I held on and emerged to plant a reasonably assertive tandem of turns, then skied out the chute.
He was very effective as the dumb male dish in "Little Children," but, if he doesn't find some assertive roles to play, he's in danger of turning into a joke.
Interviewee 12Even though many of the informants said that they tended not to speak to the midwife, they reported that they had turned more assertive and no longer felt scared to ask the midwife questions.
She took a country in the economic doldrums and turned into an assertive world force.
His performance of the towering Chaconne was by turns ruminative and assertive, with stretches of carefully manipulated, flexible tempos and considerable coloristic touches.
It has the virtues and the faults of Allen's later films which is to say that his ideas come to the fore in sharp focus, sketched with clear and decisive lines, but sometimes the sketchiness detaches them from the context of lived experience and turns them merely assertive and hermetic.
