Palmer-Levy looked around the table, daring anyone to disagree with her flat assertion.

He had not addressed his flat assertion of a year ago that he would not return to the infield.

His tone of voice sent a shiver down her spine, the finality, the flat assertion, the sense of future she dared not think of.

What is behind these flat assertions?

I was beginning to understand the surgeon's flat assertion.

The quote most frequently used against Pearson was the flat assertion that he had said on television: "I'd rather be Red than dead."

But their flat assertions that it was merely an accident have only encouraged theorists, who are still busily inventing wacky stories.

I hesitate, Colonel, to, make the flat assertion, but I think there is an interesting chance that it might be so.

The flat assertion made her stop in mid-escape, and glance at him uncertainly.

Giskard answered at once, with a flat and uninflected assertion, "It is Aurora, sir?"