But even the most tentative, stilted and clearly amateurish contributions have something to tell us about the ways in which the British mediated with the notion of India, and the Indians, in their turn, kept a close and often sardonic watch on their temporary rulers.
What emerges from this attempt to characterise the different phases of war poetry, however, is that some of the best, certainly some of the most interesting, poets defy even the broadest and most tentative of schemes.
faculty entrance requirements; curricular activities and general school policy," each school would, in effect, be a student dominated and community‐con trolled enclave with only the most tentative links to any more cohesive and less parochial ed ucation policy, and with the pro fessionals as mere advisers.
As they toured a range of issues, Mr. Gore seemed most at home and Mr. Bush most tentative on subjects that required deep Washington experience.
It just doesn't work that way since God is "for" everyone who seeks God out and takes even the most tentative step toward relationship.
That would end his power to unsettle the UUP and to block even the most tentative moves towards compromise.
Clinton had laid down the most tentative of road maps to her coming campaign and left without giving the scrambling press any major gaffes.
Even routine contacts with Miss Suu Kyi were severed after 1995.So the most tentative signs of a thaw have been greeted with excitement and some confusion by pro-democracy campaigners based in neighbouring Thailand, who talk about "another Berlin Wall" coming down, and with a cautious welcome by diplomats.
I'm not really entirely sure why, but I think I've always taken an enormous delight when the most tentative thought, often from the quietest voice, evolves into significant and substantial products.
