Sentence examples for gently assertive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brown also played Mompou's gently assertive "Cancion y Danza" No. 9 (1937) and his own lyrical if mildly angular "Homage to Mompou" (2007).

She has always seemed gently assertive and self-possessed, as you would expect from someone who has been acting since she was 10 and who secured legal emancipation from her parents at 15 to enable her to work.

Schultz's method is to probe gently and suggest without being assertive, although one doesn't need to be a psychologist to see how the cross-examiner's trick – planting an idea in the jury's mind by dismissing its importance – is deployed.

A.: Sesame oil ranges from straw-colored and gently flavored to mahogany-hued and assertive, depending on how the seeds were treated before being pressed.

Gently, gently.

Lampard more assertive.

Women are more assertive.

"They're too assertive.

Gently groom.

Cleanse gently.

I was not assertive.