(The only other openly devotional figure here is by Nolde's compatriot, Georg Kolbe, a painter-turned-sculptor whose 1930 "Pietà" depicts a grieving Mary kneeling on one knee. During the Nazi regime, Kolbe produced works of a more assertive type, idealized figures of warriors and athletes).
He said that he has preferred playing No. 2 to more assertive types, like Rocco Landesman, the president of Jujamcyn, and to Tom, about whom he said, "It's comforting to me to have him step out and do things that I don't then have to do".
I have an assertive, type-A personality.
There, Mackay says, the wines are strong, dark and sometimes very tannic — the type of assertive wine you might expect from a Dornishman.
This finding is in contrast to the media image of the savvy, assertive highly educated woman holding clear views about the type of birth she wants [ 51].
We hypothesized that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) may have the quality to reduce the use of several type of coercion including compulsory admissions.
Assertive responses are particularly effective in countering bullying because the child who masters this type of direct, emotionally honest communication demonstrates that a bully's attacks will be answered in a fair, but formidable way.
Both these patients were highly articulate, assertive, and knowledgeable about services, and took a leading role in determining the course of their treatment and the type of services they received.
Although American teams have traditionally depended on counter-attacking — a type of strategy that involves exploiting an opponent's aggression — Klinsmann hopes that his players will soon be more assertive and creative on offense.
In these types of transactions, buyers must be assertive early in negotiations.
