Fearful as some of us are about exhibiting a too-primitive and "demonizing" attitude — the kind of macho Us-versus-Them, Axis-of-Evil line of thinking that has made Bush and Company figures of easy derision — we have become increasingly tentative about assigning this stark designation.
(Hudson is somewhat tentative about endorsing this view, as opposed to merely endorsing the claim that it looks better than its many rivals, but for expository purposes I'll refer to it here as his view).
This time, though, there was nothing tentative about the pregnancy: she skipped the amniocentesis.
He appeared tentative about the kind of effort the coaches expected after the initial wrap-up.
Ford is fairly tentative about the potential of full battery-electric cars.
They are also afraid, and tentative about the validity of the very rights they enforce.
"The scientific organizations are reluctant to advocate detailed policy prescriptions, while political actors are tentative about the scientific realities".
She was strangely tentative about the exchange, as if she weren't used to buying nice things for herself.
But Cameron on Thursday sounded tentative about the idea of withdrawing protection given by the letters or stopping it from happening again.
