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Recent Examples of self-assertion
The full moon in your sign on Oct. 17 brings the focus back to your independence and personal goals, signaling a moment of release and self-assertion.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
This vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
But with this bottom-up self-assertion has come the bile that so terrified the founders of modern India.
—Vinay Sitapati, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021
This stark reality is made painfully real in the flashes of regret that cross Ali’s face and in the occasional bursts of defiant self-assertion that Fetchit, to his credit, doesn’t always walk back.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
This was a recognizably Trumpian bit of ego rehab and self-assertion, after a recognizably Trumpian transgression.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
As the story proceeds, the narrator dredges up more secrets, more cries for help that double as acts of self-assertion.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
Scott’s blinking, stuttering, no-longer-shy self-assertion is absolutely recognizable and absorbing.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
This vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
But with this bottom-up self-assertion has come the bile that so terrified the founders of modern India.
—Vinay Sitapati, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021
This stark reality is made painfully real in the flashes of regret that cross Ali’s face and in the occasional bursts of defiant self-assertion that Fetchit, to his credit, doesn’t always walk back.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
This was a recognizably Trumpian bit of ego rehab and self-assertion, after a recognizably Trumpian transgression.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-assertion
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She's paired up with Xeni (voiced by Richard Ayoade), a daydream director looking to move up into the big leagues of nighttime dreams but has a lot of artistic arrogance.Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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This can help alleviate concerns about potential arrogance or difficulty in adjusting to team dynamics. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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There may be some irony in watching Semmelweis argue against complacency, as what’s tried and true narratively still proves effective in the film itself.Stephen Saito, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Comfort can lull us into a sense of dull complacency, and fear comes in the form of a poisonous bouquet of toxicity that paralyzes us.Cherie Kloss, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
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But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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This connects to how the Puberty Alarm cartoon substitutes for the egotism some people never outgrow — the self-justification featured in groomer films such as Eighth Grade and Love, Simon and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2024
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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In the primary bedroom, which opens to a patio, wood floors lead to an bathroom with a spacious vanity, free-standing tub, and separate rain shower.Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
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Scroll to give your vanity the Mrs. Bieber treatment at a discount as the holiday weekend approaches.AnaMaria Glavan, Allure, 31 Oct. 2024
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With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
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The Academy Award-winning actress, known for her fierce talent and daunting hauteur, boasts a career spanning 60 years.Ian Malone, Vogue, 16 July 2024
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His eccentricities — once easily dismissed as the affectations of a lonely man — read maniacal.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Strangely, the results come off as a directorial affectation, a willful cramping of her style.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Self-assertion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-assertion. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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