Sentence examples similar to a tentative assertion from inspiring English sources

We now understand a novel to be a mapping of a writer's experience onto a waking dream, and a crucial turn toward this understanding can be seen in Defoe's tentative assertion of a less than strictly historical kind of truth — the novelist's "truth".

"Dream Pharma's tentative assertion to the media that they did not know the drugs were to be used for executions is simply false.

It would seem plausible to assert that there is such a ban, though any such assertion should, of course, be made in a tentative way.

Each account comprises a set of proposals, hypotheses, assertions, and assumptions that together should provide a tentative story for why all of the relevant observations came out as they did.

Make a tentative seating plan.

I took a tentative nibble.

A tentative thumbs-up.

A tentative smile.

A tentative parts cost list.

His writing hardly betrayed a tentative hand.

But it is making a tentative comeback.