"Anger and self assertion" were the most galvanising things about what we now call "old school" hip-hop, and it's thrilling to have them back.
One could do without boilerplate self-assertions along the lines of this from Claire — "I'm 33, and I'd like a life, too" — and some of the revelations seem too neatly organized to arrive precisely on cue.
We love her manga cute/Harajuku couture, or at least its contrast with her music which so graphically alludes to sex and is full of strident self-assertions ("I never met a muthafucker that I need").
Authority, self-assertion.
That aggressive self-assertion continues.Not wholly successfully.
It was more a matter of confidence, and self-assertion.
She writes about love, family, God and self-assertion.
He summed the book up as "a blunder of self-assertion, self-exposure, and self-denigration".
But self-assertion and propinquity did their work, with the usual results.The difficulty with neighboursThe trouble is that propinquity and self-assertion are still at work today.
Beneath its self-assertion, Dobson's self-portrait is introspective and troubled.
Mr. Luisi showed a flash of either self-assertion or wounded pride in Dresden.
