In all of American literature no one better captured the struggle of settlers on the Great Plains than Willa Cather in "O Pioneers!" In an ambitious attempt to transfer Cather's powerful novel to the stage, the Acting Company has mounted a musical pageant of a play that, despite a slow and tentative beginning, builds into an effective theater piece.
On New Year's Eve a tentative romance began when she kissed him a midnight.
The violence could hurt a tentative process begun by India and Pakistan to repair relations after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, for which India blames Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Though the effects of the Madrid attack would probably not be enough to push the euro zone economy back into recession, analysts said, a fear that Europe could be vulnerable to further attacks could weigh on a regional economy already showing signs of faltering after a tentative recovery began last year.
It is the tentative beginning of what is likely to be, if all goes well, a long period of political and economic reconstruction (see article).The first hurdle is the need to rebalance the ethnic composition of the government.
The judge set March 11 as a tentative date to begin penalty hearings.
More recently, a tentative optimism has begun to emerge, the firm hope that development and prosperity may finally reach the region.
The Museum of Modern Art has made a tentative, if ultimately disappointing, beginning in "Unreal City," one of the boutique exhibitions that comprise the "Modern Starts" portion of its yearlong "MOMA 2000" reconsideration of its collections.
In 1978, American culture was just beginning a tentative examination, through the prisms of Vietnam and Watergate, of the country's myriad mid-century sins.
They begin a tentative affair, but soon actions belie intentions, and backstories change.
