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"Enthusiasm, self-assertion, had as usual, transformed her, and he saw the colour glowing under her olive skin. Was she accusing him of a lack of frankness? "And why," he asked, collecting himself, "did you think " he got no further. "It's because you have an idea that I'm a selfish Epicurean, if that isn't tautology because I'm interested in a form of art, the rest of the world can go hang.
"I must go," said she. "Good-bye." "Carrie!" repeated the voice, calling again, impatiently. Max knew, although he could not see the owner of the voice, that it was "Dick." It was, he thought, a coarse voice, full of intimations of the swaggering self-assertion of the low-class Londoner, who thinks himself the whole world's superior. Carrie called out: "All right; I'm coming!"
For just then the latch clicked, the door slowly opened, and a voice said, "Come in out o' the wet." The voice was neither that of the Old Man nor of his wife. It was the voice of a small boy, its weak treble broken by that preternatural hoarseness which only vagabondage and the habit of premature self-assertion can give.
Her starts from the dreamy oppression, if that were what kept her silent, took the form of aggression, when she disagreed with Colville about things he was saying, or attacked him for this or that thing which he had said in times past. It was an unhappy and unamiable self-assertion, which he was not able to compassionate so much when she resisted or defied Mrs.
His arguments are familiar to every reader, and the conclusion at which he arrived is almost taken for a postulate in the present essay. The object of these chapters is to reiterate the importance of self-assertion, tenacity, and positiveness of principle.
And her blue eyes flashed with the glitter of steel, while her chin was thrown up in defiant vanity and self-assertion. He watched her with indifferent curiosity; the abrupt changes of mood repelled him.
Houston was aroused from his pleasant revery by the rather noisy entrance of a young man, who, with flushed face, and manner more indicative of self-assertion than self-possession, passed down the car and took a seat facing himself.
Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure.
Not in the ecclesiastical arena, not in polemic for a creed, not in self-assertion and disputings, do we please our Master best, but in the simple service of love. To seek the good of men is to seek the glory of God. They are not two things, but one and the same.
He had felt in the lawyer's presence the contact of a nature which possessed more self-assertion and self-assurance than his own. Be had felt that Cavendish could read him, could handle him, could see through his schemes. He shrank from exposing himself, even to the scrutiny of this sharp man, whom he could hire for any service.
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