All 9 Uses of
assert
in
Man And Superman
- …the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of the Doll's House and asserting herself as an individual instead of a mere item in a moral pageant.†
Chpt Ded.
- His scepticism, once his least tolerated quality, has now triumphed so completely that he can no longer assert himself by witty negations, and must, to save himself from cipherdom, find an affirmative position.†
Chpt Ded.
- Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style.†
Chpt Ded. *
- He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him.†
Chpt Ded.
- He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him.†
Chpt Ded.
- Disprove his assertion after it is made, yet its style remains.†
Chpt Ded.
- All the assertions get disproved sooner or later; and so we find the world full of a magnificent debris of artistic fossils, with the matter-of-fact credibility gone clean out of them, but the form still splendid.†
Chpt Ded.
- One guesses her as one of those women who are conscious of being treated as silly and negligible, and who, without having strength enough to assert themselves effectually, at any rate never submit to their fate.†
Chpt 1
- Here endeth my first and last attempt to assert my authority.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(assert as in: asserted her opinion that...) to say that something is true -- especially something disputed