| 单词 | self-asserting |
| 例句 | “Biddy,” said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, “I must request to know what you mean by this?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Given his height and elaborate way of dressing he was more visible than other people, but there was nothing exclusionary or self-asserting about his manner. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “He’s definitely self-asserting himself and being super aggressive. He understands that he has an opportunity in front of him,” Beal said of Kuzma. Confidence in the clutch has Kuzma emerging as Beal’s co-star 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Such a spirited, self-asserting demeanor is becoming more loudly embraced across pop culture. Latin Grammy Preview: The young Ángela Aguilar leads a bold new wave of female acts - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But the Church is visible to the eye, audible to the ear, self-manifesting and self-asserting: I cannot escape from it. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z His self-asserting face disdains disease; 'Mid its own rays it sits, O well at ease. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z The class of disbelievers was pretty large in his day and very self-asserting. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z It is a not uncommon fact that individuals usually the reverse of self-asserting exhibit, on occasions, an overweening self-consciousness, which is all the more pointed and aggressive because of their secret and habitual self-distrust. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z His nature, vehement, turbulent, and self-asserting throughout his early and middle manhood, was gaining towards the end that ripeness in which, according to Shakespeare, lies the whole significance of life. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z He was likewise a somewhat noisy bird, and very self-asserting, and would never allow us to sleep a wink after five in the morning. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The failure of the nine to cast out the devil would also, as they were not humbled, render them irritable and self-asserting. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The occupant was a fish-hawker, an Irishwoman—cheery and self-asserting, voluble as to herself and her neighbours. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z If there be in existence an inscrutable ‘transcendental Ego,’ eternally screened from my ken by this self-asserting ‘empirical Ego,’ I confess I feel very little interest in the nature or the welfare of the former. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z It is as if, in their mouldering dust, the character of the living men was preserved, the one still self-asserting, the other as unpretentious in the eternal sleep as he was in life. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Mala pressed both hands to her heart, as though she would keep down a self-asserting pain there, then she bowed her head and answered, almost inaudibly: "Tell him--that I am expecting him!" 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z He saw no barriers, no trees, no hedges or divisions; no summits startled him with 'See, how big I am!' all self-asserting items lacked. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z In The Argonauts of North Liberty, Bret Harte has depicted “Ezekiel Corwin, ... a shrewd, practical, self-sufficient and self-asserting unit of the more cautious later California emigration.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Now, and within a few hours, were disclosed the sources of all the aimless brutalities, all the self-asserting iniquities that have played such havoc in an erring world. A Cursory History of Swearing Mrs. Tappitt introduced Mrs. Rowan in due form, and Mrs. Rowan made her little bow, if with some self-asserting supremacy, still with fitting courtesy. Rachel Ray The admixture with prayer of any human, self-asserting, intrusive element, is this unlawful fragrance. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Man therefore, like the animals, is purely self-asserting and self-seeking. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" I watched Young California and saw that it was at least expensively dressed, cheerful in manner, and self-asserting in conversation. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The remaining servants, however, had an ill will against the self-asserting and pretentious head gardener. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine From the patient, enduring, humble, martyr-like, though constant and faithful, maiden, she changes to a proud, self-asserting queen. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Here the bush only seems to grow denser, the trees grander and more self-asserting, the orchids and parasites on the boughs more variously brilliant. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses He was one of those ready, voluble, self-asserting fellows, who abound in Ireland, but whose favor is not the less with their countrymen from the fact of their frequency. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly In native gifts and force of character, and in her checkered history, the Empress Anne of Savoy deserves a place by the side of the earlier self-asserting empresses of Constantinople. Women of Early Christianity Both are quick and clear in judgment where others are concerned; but, when self is touched, they are tyrannical, malicious, and self-asserting. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine His self-asserting independence had gone, in its place was growing a homely sympathy for the troubled man. The Blue Goose He was ardent, confident, self-asserting, but not disagreeably either one or the other. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Probably the self-asserting daydream is the commonest variety, take mankind as a whole, with the love dream next in order of frequency. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Following the death of Sophia there was for nearly forty years a break in the predominance of self-asserting Augustæ. Women of Early Christianity But he considers most objectionable that self-asserting propensity to boast about it associated as it so often is with an unctuous piety. Jena or Sedan? He liked these radiant, self-asserting women, to be sure, very much as he did the silly fowl or a Skye terrier conscious of its beauty in every hair. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 And the sight of her face, shut and superior with self-asserting indifference, made a flame of rage go over him. The Rainbow The most complex intellectual processes may be made subservient to this self-asserting emotion. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Again it is said, "Woman when independent and self-asserting will lose her influence over man." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The most modest among ourselves seem a little arrogant and self-asserting in comparison with them. Fair Margaret A Portrait The modest pronoun is not to be outdone by the blustering substantive or the self-asserting verb. American Sketches 1908 This might account for his ill odor in a capital where misconstructions and jealous evil-speaking have too often been the lot of the simplest, the most learned, and the least self-asserting of artists. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The logic could hardly get worse, but the secretary got more pompously self-asserting, and the scholarly poet’s temper more and more venomous. Romola Education frees the mind from the bondage of authority and makes the individual self-asserting. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I But then she laid her face against his, in a way that was extremely womanish and not a bit self-asserting. The Gold of Chickaree Can we, then, consistently with such a position, be self-asserting and self-claimant? A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies The face of the young girl flushed,—not with confusion, but with self-asserting and defiant brightness that seemed to say, "Let them do their worst." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The Doctor, though he was a self-asserting and somewhat violent man, was thoroughly soft-hearted. Dr. Wortle's School We class the watch among simple ornaments because, although it went—very demonstratively too, with a loud self-asserting tick—its going was irregular and uncertain. Rivers of Ice For patriotic heroism— Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled; and for personal independence, and sturdy, if self-asserting, manhood— A man's a man for a' that. Robert Burns He was consequential, dogmatic, and with all the self-asserting priggishness of young Oxford fresh upon him. She and I, Volume 1 His were no brawny shoulders to push their way, no matter what points were galled by contact,—no self-asserting, irresistible press of purpose, which is careless of opinion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 It is popularly believed to be the headquarters of “Shoddy,” and certain it is that one sees among its habitués an immense number of flashily dressed, loud-voiced, self-asserting people. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Still, the cardinal contrast holds, that women are self-forgetful, men self-asserting; women hide their surplus affection under a feigned indifference; men hide their indifference under a feigned affection. The Friendships of Women It is the tongue of conquerors, the language of imperial will, of self-asserting individuality, of courage, masterhood, and freedom. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But he was a man who was pleasant to other men,—not combative, not self-asserting beyond the point at which self-assertion ceases to be a necessity of manliness. Phineas Finn The Irish Member At thirty-three time ceases to tread with feathery feet, and the years grow self-asserting, italicize themselves in passing; and across the dial of woman's beauty the shadow of decadence falls aslant. Infelice So self-asserting were these new-born teachers of the Sophist class, that Plato thought it necessary to recall attention to the good old perennial source of instruction, the home, the trade, and the society. Practical Essays Had he had the chief command on shore, it is possible that the two, impetuous and self-asserting though they were, might have reached an understanding. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Nan was anything but self-asserting, and she had no noisy fashion of thrusting herself before the public gaze, but everybody trusted her who knew her; she had the rare and noble faculty of inspiring confidence. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Patience is not a prominent gift of our four-handed relatives, but compensating nature has endowed them with the genius of self-help and its adjuvant talents,—observation, causality, imitativeness, covetousness, and self-asserting pluck. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Those who were not dispirited were vulgar and self-asserting; a class that wished to rise above the position they were fitted for by becoming teachers. The Doctor's Dilemma If he is self-asserting and defiant, he takes the opposite of these opinions and gives to them his vehement adherence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 We come from the domain of finished products, complete to the last polish, silently self-asserting and wooing the almighty dollar with all their simpers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 But shall the New Redeem the pledge the Old Year made, Or prove a self-asserting heir? John Marr and Other Poems All Kentuckians took a great interest in politics, as is the wont of self-asserting, independent freemen, living under a democratic government. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Their social, religious, and political systems were such as naturally flourished in a country remarkable for its temper of rough and self-asserting equality. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 It is a good thing for women to be self-asserting and independent. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. He had been ever bold and self-asserting; but now he was perhaps a little over-bold. John Caldigate Nearly all the eminent jury-lawyers we have known have been, consciously or unconsciously, self-asserting, and their individuality rather than that of their clients has been impressed upon juries. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 We may seem to have been unconsciously arguing as strongly in favour of a vigorous social conservatism as of a self-asserting spirit of social improvement. On Compromise In whatever community we may live, we need only look around to discover that its real leaders are not the merely intelligent, educated, and good, but the energetic, the self-asserting, the aggressive. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 I watched Young California, and saw that it was, at least, expensively dressed, cheerful in manner, and self-asserting in conversation. American Notes Afterward he became noisy, self-asserting, sharp, and seemingly devoid of moral sense or honesty. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine She would have far more trouble than Amy in getting rid of the self-asserting self in her, which closes the door against heaven's divinest gifts. Weighed and Wanting It is not the bold, brassy, self-asserting man who is their superior, because his sort of offensive forwardness originates in even a worse state of mind and heart than the habit of shying. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Faithful witnessing to men of their sins need not be rude, harsh, or self-asserting. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah If you will allow me to say so, your wife's self-asserting way—well, it was so unlike her brother's way, that it had its effect on him! Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time How many faces one sees which, in ordinary circumstances, are comfortable, self-asserting, sufficient, and even bold; the lines of which, under difficulties, collapse and become mean, spiritless, and insignificant. The Eustace Diamonds Plain and sharp and self-asserting at twenty-two, she had become at thirty-five magnetic and winning, full of tact, and almost beautiful. Saxe Holm's Stories These seafaring, invading, self-asserting men were the English of old time, and were our fathers who did rough work by which we are profiting. Impressions of Theophrastus Such As the don of a college he would have been great, and in his sphere: as the Governor of a Province with a self-asserting people, I doubt if he had found the true groove. Canada and the States But the enthusiasm must be of the real sort—not self-asserting, self-conscious, self-seeking; but earnest, patient, resolute, and reticent: for science, too, needs heroism no less than war. The Coming of the Friars To remove from her mind any such error, his tones and manner became still more self-asserting and patronizing. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Vinton Arnold, however, in his deep need had instinctively half guessed the truth, for her influence was like that of a warm day in spring, undemonstrative, not self-asserting, but most powerful. Without a Home To this, and to one or two other missives couched in terms of increasing decision, Hugh answered with manly, self-asserting, overbearing arguments. He Knew He Was Right Strong, self-asserting, yet politic, Mrs Dinneford managed her good husband about as she pleased in all external matters, and left him to the free enjoyment of his personal tastes, preferences and friendships. Cast Adrift He too seemed, by his manners, to have entered a little more on the way of humility; he was quieter, and less self-asserting. North and South He was by nature strong and robust, and his experience made him unaccommodating and self-asserting. Character They could not help noticing that the men were more eager, annoyingly feverish, and self-asserting in their superior elegance and external show than their old associates were in their frank, unrestrained habits. Devil's Ford Like all strong-willed and self-asserting men, Mr. Chase had the faults of his qualities. The Education of Henry Adams It has been given to them because they form a numerous, wealthy, brave, and self-asserting nation. North America — Volume 2 Her self-asserting manner had vanished; she was quiet, she was even humble. The Evil Genius "Biddy," said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, "I must request to know what you mean by this?" Great Expectations That self-asserting, obtrusive independence which so often wounds us is, if viewed aright, but an outward sign of those good things which a new country has produced for its people. North America — Volume 2 |
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