So, for a breathless minute, one of the fiercest and most feral of creatures on the planet beat straight above my primped garden and, until it had disappeared into a dancing mote in my eye, we alone shared the tentative dawn sky, the carefully edged path, the clipped yews, the family sleeping indoors, the everything known and unknown of that minute.
When two 16-year-old Jewish students talk about how they will handle going to the army, their two Arab classmates listen carefully, with tentative and distant expressions.
The initial banter is like a first date, tentative but purposeful, words chosen carefully.
He stood at the back when the rest of the staff gathered on the landing to say goodnight, and I descended the uneven stairs carefully, a little tentative on my high heels after so much wine.
The first date, with its tentative stabs at bland conversation and carefully inoffensive verbal parrying, may be riveting to the participants but rarely makes for captivating cinema.
Nevertheless, the quality of tentative physical interactors needs to be carefully validated, including verification by reciprocal tagging and purification, benchmarking with manually curated PPI databases such as DIP, BIND and IntAct, correlation with gene coexpression, elevated cooccurrence of orthologs in other species and other evidences of functional relatedness.
The British Government also voiced tentative support for the plan and said it would examine the proposal carefully before its presentation to the 28 EU heads of government at the next summit in December.
Instead, the court's "Tentative Decision" begins with this disclaimer: The parties may rest assured that this Court carefully considered each and every point of contention proffered and the evidence supportive thereof.
