Sentence examples for act tentative from inspiring English sources

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The would-be cookie eaters have been told to prepare a series of emotional reactions, to act tentative, shy, cynical.

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The Uniform State Narcotic Act, first tentative draft in 1925 and fifth final version in 1932, was a result of work by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

It's particularly welcoming to roots and folk artists, and also seems to be the preferred venue for off-the-radar US acts making tentative UK inroads, such as crowdfunded troubadour Jonathan Coulton and cult podcast Welcome to Night Vale.

That Mr. Alagna's interactions with Ms. Radvanovsky in the first act sometimes felt tentative could be ascribed to the conditions.

At the end of Act I the tentative steps toward the temporary cease-fire are convincingly portrayed in the music and the libretto.

Another problem for some critics was that Spring Awakening softened some of the original play's very hard edges, in particular the rape of Wendla by Melchoir, which is here presented as a tender and consensual (if tentative) act.

The Italian referee, Nicola Rizzoli, although tentative, acted as expected in showing a second yellow card.

An experiment is a test, trial, or tentative procedure an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle or supposition.

The dramatic tension of the performance in Act I seemed unfocused and tentative, which may be a result of the crisis that arose in this production.

Although his claims for the act of writing are so tentative, so doubt-ridden, Sebald feels writers have an obligation to air what others cannot bear to remember.

The Middle East is experiencing something we haven't seen in a long, long time: moderates getting their act together a little, taking tentative stands and pushing back on the bad guys.

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