The young, timid Yves had gone, replaced by a charming, seemingly assured man who was more than just a household name – like Coco Chanel, he had become his brand's most alluringly potent incarnation.
So much of our lives, as women, are spent apologizing, spent assuring men we are really but an addendum.
Likewise better packaging and marketing, Cavanah and Thomson agree, has done a lot to assure men that buying toys doesn't make them seedy.
Feminists often, in my opinion, spend too much time and energy focused on who's popular, what celebrity has become the spokesperson for feminism this week and also how to assure men that we don't in fact hate them.
That outrage, among homosexuals and heterosexuals, had to play a role on insisting on legislation that assured gay men and lesbians their humanity, their equality, their rights under the law.
"You saw in Governor Bush a man who was calm," Mr. McCain said, "a man who was assured, a man who was fully prepared to assume the responsibilities" of the White House.
In Moscow, Irina assured me, men do not take their extremities for granted.
But whatever his own sense of culpability, he assured his men of his pride in their efforts, inadequate as these had proved.
A waxworks-goes in our childhood, we feel sure that the victors hare assured the men of Vichy a place in the nightmares of French children for all the years to come.
Without the need to specify mob principles of retaliation, he is said to have assured his men that any insult to one of them was an insult to the boss himself.
There's the voice of the narrator, who must now take over the business: Pritchett's stories are full of these energetic, practical, rather assured young men on the make.
