"My whole thing is that I'm very assertive to the point of being brusque," Kaling said.
"O'Keeffe was very assertive as a woman but was always very keen to assert that she was an important artist, not just an important female artist".
"He's being very assertive and aggressive," Nets Coach Lawrence Frank said of Harris.
Tonight we were very assertive in trying to get to the basket and get the best possible shot we could".
"They were very assertive midwives whose leader was actually encouraging them to do things beyond the ken of all but the most exceptional," he said.
The mashed potatoes were a bit stiff, and the spinach we ordered turned out to be very assertive braised greens — a mistake, we assumed, by the kitchen.
"We as a movement have been very assertive in embracing the full civil rights of gay men and women," Rabbi Polish said.
"She's very assertive, she's strong-willed, she's a workaholic, she's determined, she's smart, witty and for her to become missing is very puzzling to me, because she's a fighter," said Ms. Ross.
