Sentence examples for slightly tentative from inspiring English sources

Jones was left to rue a slightly tentative opening period.

Flanagan's slightly tentative conclusion is that it can.

Still, the show had a slightly tentative feel, a sense that doing it at all was the real accomplishment.

David Daniels, a countertenor, after a slightly tentative start, sang the title role with his customary vocal agility.

The earlier songs have the authority of Copland but sound slightly tentative: Bowles hadn't yet found himself.

The rest of the band performed ably, managing to make an opening set feel only slightly tentative.

That aside it's a good over, surprisingly even-paced at the start but with a couple of trademark slower balls at the end to a slightly tentative-looking Shahzaib.

Meanwhile, Adam Facer writes in with a slightly more tentative tale.

It hardly mattered that as a piece they were slightly more tentative than her older material.

"This was my reaction against the Englishness of English painting which so greatly valued a slightly understated, tentative figuration".

Stocks are expected to open slightly higher in tentative trading today as the market recovers from yesterday, when the Fed's decision to lean toward raising rates caused a wave of selling that sent stock prices lower.