Sentence examples for like tentative from inspiring English sources
Nine months later, the eucalyptuses and mountain ash in theforests that surround Marysville have sprouted a soft fuzz of green, like tentative, early-adolescent stubble.
He and the other characters seem like tentative adults, reaching out to lives that might extend beyond the self, or selves.
Zhao and Wu grow toward each other like tentative vines, and the movie is finally a consideration of how two people who mean nothing to each other can slowly and accidentally find a deep and unexpected connection.
As the most nuanced Bess we've ever had, McDonald lets us share what new love often looks like: tentative, shy, and angry with itself (why did I let this bounty pass me up before, and for years?).
The earlier works here - soft shapes abstracted from hillsides, field patterns, trees (and perhaps a biomorphic memory of bodies), and a kind of bleached-out light – feel like tentative false beginnings, or rather a kind of groping for a system of some sort that would sustain her.
Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu said, "My interest in Karnan (apart from the critic's mandate that I see everything) was primarily the songs", but noted that Sirkazhi Govindarajan's "liquid diction and brass-throated conviction makes today's male singers sound like tentative little boys in a parent's day recital".
There is little to like about the tentative agreement between Congressional leaders and the White House except that it happened at all.
A sultan's decree on port admission may seem like a tentative diplomatic gesture, but in such maritime protocol, nations are named and made, unnamed and unmade.
Others, like the tentative agreement on a salary cut here at The Times, are the result of discussions between employers and their union employees.
His tone is relentlessly measured and sometimes banal; in his best-selling book, "The Audacity of Hope," a chapter on foreign affairs reads like a tentative primer on the history of American foreign policy.
Whether Mr. Marden is drawing with pen, pencil or twigs dipped in ink, he is a searching draftsman in whom nature and the personal meet, but always at what feels like a tentative distance.
