"Our sense of self and memory," he continued, "has to be asserted over every competing memory of the past, because it was so traumatic and painful".
For some reason it needs to be asserted, over and over again, that the primary purpose of movies is to provide entertainment, that the reason everyone goes to the movies is to have fun.
"But as I looked more closely at the way that power is asserted over us, it became more obvious how much mainstream pop culture (and in particularly, music videos) syndicates a puppet-mentality, where bodies are seemingly controlled and manipulated by outside forces.
It seems that the Saudi authorities may be asserting their authority over the Wahabi clergy.
And it is such a sum whose identity over time is asserted in The clay that was on the desk on July 1st is identical with the clay that was on the table on July 2nd.
By making this request, Japan was asserting sovereignty over the Ryukyus (and acknowledging Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan).
When she spits out the phrase "I'm your prostitute," on "Get Some," she's asserting control over her own exploitation.
Eli, in other words, wasn't ever meant to be a killer in the first place, and at long last nature is asserting herself over nurture.
But something more straightforward was happening in that exchange, too: Stephanopoulos was asserting control over the Party his control, and that of his cohorts.
Officials from the Nation of Islam, a separatist African-American Muslim group, have moved in with Michael Jackson and are asserting control over the singer's business affairs, friends, employees and business associates of Mr. Jackson said.
Chasing the perfect nutty-diva anecdote, Koppel overlooked the real news value of the incident — that Volpe was asserting authority over the Met's longtime artistic director, James Levine, who had indulged Battle in the past.
