Other studies found that socially anxious people are less likely to reciprocate smiles and more likely to act in an unassertive, submissive manner (Hopko, McNeil, Zvolensky, & Eifert, 2001; Rodebaugh, Gianoli, Turkheimer, & Oltmanns, 2010; Russell et al., 2011; Weeks, Heimberg, & Reinhardt, 2011).
This dish requires a simple, unassertive starch.
"There was something unobtrusive, unassertive, about her".
His words are tentative, unassertive, provisional, yet self-assured.
He was in need of some very unassertive ties.
And the cellist, modest, unassertive, resigned, is her equal.
CANADIANS used to think of themselves as being quiet, modest and unassertive.
The resulting political message, however, inhibited Mankiewicz, whose direction was unusually unassertive.
They're smallish and unassertive and read clearly only up close.
It has energy and a great deal of unassertive yet far-reaching scholarship.
But they never lose their peculiarly unassertive, almost self-effacing power.
