The argument begins with Strauss's observation that the Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of "self-evident" truths and "unalienable Rights," was a classic statement of natural right, in keeping with Aristotle and Plato.
"Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro's later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany.
The assertion that classic Hollywood glamour was a front for Mob violence (as with the famous horse-head scene, early in the first film) never becomes ironic, never questions or undermines his own style; it remains an arm's-length editorial commentary.
Hurd – who co-wrote and produced Terminator and produced classics including Aliens – said that assertion is "really dangerous thinking", and called on companies that facilitiate piracy to take action.
Then there's "stealth wealth" – the assertion of power via apparently classic clothing.
Despite defiant assertions of independence like the classic "Cherry Bomb," the band remains cruelly underrated, a perception Evelyn McDonnell seeks to rectify in her scrupulously researched "Queens of Noise".
He regurgitated some other classic lines from his campaign, such as his assertion that Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents detain undocumented immigrants by "throwing" them into "the paddy wagon".
Saskin wrote that it was "a new Glee classic", and Chaney said it "worked wonderfully as an assertion of the New Directions' championship status".
The montage sequences from classic movies that punctuated the action offered similarly festive assertions of continuity — but one such clip, showing Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront," resonated strangely.
With its simple assertion that "Things Fall Apart," Achebe's now classic 1958 novel took Yeats's horrified imaginings of Christian Europe's apocalyptic end and made them resonate within the space of precolonial black Africa.
