self-asserting

“He’s definitely self-asserting himself and being super aggressive. He understands that he has an opportunity in front of him,” Beal said of Kuzma.

“Biddy,” said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, “I must request to know what you mean by this?”

Given his height and elaborate way of dressing he was more visible than other people, but there was nothing exclusionary or self-asserting about his manner.

Such a spirited, self-asserting demeanor is becoming more loudly embraced across pop culture.

But the Church is visible to the eye, audible to the ear, self-manifesting and self-asserting: I cannot escape from it.