Sentence examples for be more pushy from inspiring English sources

Mr. Colter's line-delivery is equally commendable when he exasperatedly tells Jones "There's... something between us". You can tell that those aren't the words he wants to be saying in that moment, but that he also knows he doesn't have the right to be more pushy.

And "women postdocs should learn to be more pushy when they have to be, bragging about their new data to the PI, protecting their territory in the lab like the men do".

I had expected that because this was the account in which I was most made up, and this portion of the experiment was also taking place latest in the day, guys would be more pushy and graphic in their approach.

This should be done without the cows around, as cows tend to be more pushy and bossy around the feed bunk and water trough, not allowing the calves in at all.

I remember in a friendly way he chastised me for not being more pushy.

"Some of these oligarchs were more pushy than the others," Mr. de Faria said.

Who knows if my parents had been more pushy and kept me there I could have been one of these footballers with an attitude problem".

Aleksandra Konieczna's Lady Macbeth, got up in black wig and Amy Winehouse makeup, is more pushy than seductive as she quickly strangles her husband's conscience.

Elena Vesnina said that men were better at being "more pushy" about tour issues, and that her tour lacked a clear leader like Billie Jean King, who founded the WTA and began the fight for equal pay nearly 45 years ago.

On electric piano, he gave them a jazzy sparkle; on organ, they were more pushy, scurrying and circling through the modal scales before climbing up to insistently jabbing notes and chords.

Pumping piano chords and cheerful insubordination (along with promotion via television commercial) gave Ms. Bareilles a multimillion-selling hit single, "Love Song , from her 2007 debut album, "Little Voice," and she's still best when her songs are more pushy than plaintive.