"Julian is hunted by a certain type of woman, and hunted is the right word, who can get quite pushy".
They're paying for an education that they want to get them somewhere, so some are quite pushy about getting to where they're going – and if things aren't going the right way, they want to know why.
On the other hand, I can sometimes be quite pushy, forceful, and presumptuous with my requests (aka demands) of support (or so I've been told).
She regarded Brooks as rather pushy.
So they can put it on clothing and not be quite as pushy with their name.
Helen's quite outgoing and pushy – but in a good way.
The letting agent was "a little bit pushy, but quite positive" about the area's new status, and this might have contributed to their decision to re-mortgage the flat on a buy-to-let mortgage, with another £30,000 from Simon's father.
"Offering editorial suggestions in the right manner, without seeming too pushy, is quite a delicate matter," he concedes.
But he didn't quite say no to the star-struck, pushy kid whose opening line, delivered in unleavened Brooklynese, went like this: "So, uh, listen, you have to run for president".
Eva, with her own solid working-class credentials, had little trouble winning the hearts of the hoi polloi, but could never quite seduce the upper classes, who found her pushy, Machiavellian, absurdly coiffed and just a smidgen trashy.
Olive Kitteridge never quite recovers from the "ghastly blow" of having her son "uprooted by his pushy new wife, after they had planned on him living nearby and raising a family".
