Word: assertion
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Gulay can call American troops in Iraq “state-sponsored killing squads” if he likes, and assert that they are analogous to the janjaweed. I’m sure, then, he wouldn’t mind castigating as foolish those Darfurians who pray each day, in vain, for their attention...
Hodgson says that the group will continue to have open meetings and attempt to maintain contact with faculty and administrators as the concentration is planned. The group has a very flexible attitude, but wants to assert that multifarious student opinions are incorporated into the most ideal situation...
With relatively little power, Connolly made moves to assert herself...
Before I get skewered by for my lack of indignant militancy, I would like to assert that I recognize that some women don’t want to get dolled up or feel that they are somehow selling themselves short if they don’t submit to the prevailing night scene. I’m not anti-feminist. I want to slice the issue such that women recognize their unique force on campus. The simple truth is that we don’t need to become men to gain clout. After all, I think I have social power therefore...
...thus achieves an uncannily convincing suggestion of deep space that contrasts sharply with the roughness and irregularity of the paper he worked on. Here the torn edge of an envelope, there a line of writing peeking through a light gray ground, serve to continually interrupt the depicted illusion and assert a stubborn physicality. The result is a fundamental tension whereby the drawing/object seems to continually fluctuate between material and representation, object and form, refusing to take a steady place in our perception. And as far as I’m concerned, this tension alone is more than enough to sustain...