Sentence examples for mildly assertive from inspiring English sources

The escarole wilted while the clams steamed open, and the spicy linguiça and mildly assertive greens played a perfect counterpoint to each other.

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).

Mr Koizumi's mildly more assertive stance has, surprisingly, actually eased tensions.First up was China, which had been huffing and puffing about Mr Koizumi's visit to a nationalist shrine for Japan's war dead in August.

Mr. Glass's score mixes mildly angular vocal lines into his signature torrent of swirling woodwind figures and string arpeggios, and it relies more heavily than usual on varied, assertive percussion textures and rich choral writing.

Mildly worried.

Mildly unenthusiastically.

Mildly disgruntled.

Mildly embarrassing.

Lampard more assertive.

Women are more assertive.

"They're too assertive.