unassertive

It’s a distinction that is still surprising for an organization that is far from poor and depressing for fans who have watched the team take an unassertive approach to signing baseball’s best players.

After a time, Patterson’s play-it-down-the-middle approach feels less like the remembrances of a Renaissance man and more like evasive, unassertive hedging.

But taking it over on Friday, the soprano Elza van den Heever was representative of a cast that sounded wan and unassertive.

The sun, only rarely in evidence behind gray clouds, set quickly and bade us an unassertive farewell.

Without these insights, what remains is less the impression of a feminist musician than of an absent mother, neglectful friend and unassertive wife.