They know that forward Wilson Chandler, who was tentative as a rookie, can be a supremely confident two-way player.
Then she saw this: "A hand made its way from the front seat to the back and rested, light and tentative as a mayfly, on my mother's knee.
The data also indicate that the free long waves promote onshore transport, but the conclusions are more tentative as a result of a few errors in the test schedule and modifications to the setup which reduced testing time.
Here, in the city where Barack Obama first announced his plans to run for president at the Old State Capitol, the same place where Abraham Lincoln once served, the mood of residents — both supporters and detractors of the president — appeared muted, watchful, tentative as a second term began.
So I would walk past the posters for the meetings, my eyes briefly alighting, as tentative as a fly on a peach, on the word "gay," as I made my way each morning to Greek class, during my first year, or, the next year, to Greek 201 ("Plato's 'Apology' "), or, the year after, to the course in which, for the first time, I read Sophocles in Greek.
He was wary, tentative, as a matter of fact, because he just did not know what would happen to him next, because he was, is, at the mercy of people who could make or break his image.
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.
And the performances were tentative as well.
For example, "technology" was the label for one category within "tentative," as an explanation for why theories change.
The world didn't come to an end with the Cuban missile crisis, yet the relief on "Mad Men" was faint and tentative, as if a burden were not so much lifted as tugged aside for a moment, like Don Draper's marital crisis.
