Sentence examples for once assertive from inspiring English sources

As a work of architecture unto itself, it is handsome, at once assertive and self-assured.

A once assertive Protestantism has ceased to be a dominant religion and culture in England, Wales, Scotland, and part of Ireland.

Patricia Spencer, first of the flutists, was at once assertive and feeling in Louis Karchin's "Fanfare/Pavane" and Eugene Lee's "Western Wind".

I was riveted by the degree of heat, at once assertive and tempered, in the pale green broth for Mr. Flay's answer to cioppino, a seafood stew.

The ensuing scherzo had an appealing character, at once assertive and awkward, and was followed by a quiet withdrawal, which seemed less a full-blown slow movement than an interlude separating one noisy movement from another, the finale.

Many passages were steeped in references to God, reflecting the Islamic character Mr. Hussein, once an assertive secularist, has projected since losing the Persian Gulf war.

In America, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement showed how to be political in ways that are at once nonviolent, assertive, and effective.

Darius Vassell, once more an assertive presence, fought to reach a pass from his fellow substitute Owen Hargreaves.

Now, the windows were covered with butcher paper; with some trepidation, Mr. Bartlett, 48, stuck his head inside the debris-covered space and sighed as he looked at racks and shelves that once held his assertive and playful clothes.

Gibelin argued that, in the coming months, contradictions of the traditional French right — which was at once globalist and assertive of traditional values — would dissolve along with the traditional left into Macronsime.

Be assertive once you spot them.