Cosell's manner — pushy, tireless, and brazen — did not endear him to everyone, but his progress was steady.
In fact, behaving in a pushy or aggressive manner often lowers your chances of upgrading, and increases your changes for being bumped, and even arrested.
"Offering editorial suggestions in the right manner, without seeming too pushy, is quite a delicate matter," he concedes.
Nothing too pushy or presumptuous; with her nice manners, gentle wit and quintessential British irony, Austen was a token female before we even had token females.
Our planet is a fascinating and diverse place, and the human race, ever pushy and inquisitive, has wriggled its way into all sorts of interesting corners and assumed all manner of heroic roles.
Mrs. Crasthorpe did not interest or concern him, and it was hard to believe that this pushy, over-lively woman might possess qualities more appealing than her manner.
He was loud, pushy, and insistant, whereas Obama was trying to have a conversation in a calm and collected manner.
Mr. Morgan, who writes with the brisk intolerance one would expect of a columnist on manners for the Times of London, suggests that to be "obsequious" and to be "pushy," both tasteless, are among the snob's typical mistakes.
