| We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion. |
| There is no room in the end time for individual distinction and self-assertion, but merely for adoration of someone far beyond the self. |
| In the ultimate paradox, submission was to be the only meaningful route left to national self-assertion. |
| For Jack, speech is self-assertion, territorial claim, a proof of confidence. |
| Who hasn't taken solace in some form of greediness, self-assertion, or just plain carelessness? |
| There are obviously many degrees of cultural self-assertion, cultural defensiveness, cultural porousness and cultural boundaries. |
