So he took a course in assertiveness training -- the only man among a group of "mild, unassertive women eager to strengthen their personalities".
Patients with a 'type C' personality (i.e. tending to be cooperative, unassertive, and repress negative emotions through anger-avoidance) may also be less likely to survive melanoma [ 16, 21].
In person, she is quiet, retiring, unassertive; I have seen her sidle into parties almost unnoticed.
No amount of personality screening will change that; and nor, probably, should it.Similarly, attempts to build a rapport with senior managers before acting decisively can be counter-productive if that makes a new CEO unassertive.
"There was something unobtrusive, unassertive, about her".
This dish requires a simple, unassertive starch.
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.
