Hong's drypoint style of long takes (five minutes and more) and brisk, decisive pans and zooms blends with his febrile gamesmanship to peel layers of pretense, indifference, and self-deception off characters whose confidently self-asserted identities are dubious and to restore the integral identity of the one character whose integrity was, despite appearances, intact to begin with.
'The right to self-harm'? 'The right to feel humiliated'?
Don't self-sabotage your right to be happy.
Maybe the Australian's editors need to have a difficult conversation about how damaging this has been to their self-asserted status as a leader on Indigenous affairs reporting?
As a nuclear power, the self-asserted masters of Shia theological enlightenment would be able to present themselves as similar masters of scientific intellect.
Mocking Brown's self-asserted "moral compass", Cameron accused the prime minister of borrowing slogans "directly from the far right BNP with his pledge for 'British jobs for British workers', and allowing No 10 staff to smear MPs – a reference to the row over the Damian McBride affair.
The harshest critique is of an unidentified lieutenant who responded to the shooting from a neighboring part of Oakland and "self-asserted overall command and inexplicably decentralized" the control of the operation.
Florine, with her self-asserted cultural authority and her intellectual obstinacy, is a sort of Antigone, a young pasionaria who seeks to radicalize politics by the simple fact of her age, by her defiance of her parents and of the law (which bars children from running for office), and by her anti-bureaucratic, utterly personal, and aestheticized program.
She went on, "It took away our right to self-determination, self-governance, and democracy".
Since individuals have a right of self-government, they have a right to democratic participation.
