Sentence examples for tentative as from inspiring English sources

And the performances were tentative as well.

His control of the novel's narrative is tentative as well.

The opening attack was tentative, as were a few entrances that followed here and in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Concert Pour Quatre Parties de Violes".

In any case, Wilmore was off to a good start Monday night -- a little muted, which is his style anyway, and a little tentative, as would be expected.

Similarly, any tangential cell displacements can be followed step by step the apparent movements, even if the conclusions remain tentative as long as experimental corroboration of the migration is pending.

The bass Mikhail Petrenko often failed to project and sounded tentative as Creon.

Tentative as it may be, I don't consider it ill-founded.

Melodies became tentative, as if they might disappear at any moment into the haze of harmony.

He also ventured a few brief solos, sounding less tentative as the night progressed.

Yet he sounded tentative, as if afraid of sticking out too much in this reverberant space.

Ann Harada and Marla Mindelle are amiable but oddly tentative as the stepsisters, who in this version are not ugly.