Sentence examples for tentative character from inspiring English sources

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1. Scientific knowledge, while durable, has a tentative character.

A tentative character uniting the tardigrades and the onychophorans is their shared possession of non-articulated clawed appendages, as in the Cambrian lobopodian Aysheaia, but in contrast with arthropods that have articulated ones (Nielsen 2001).

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These propositions are more tentative in character; additional 'research about research' is necessary and may impact future research agendas.

Before molecular phylogenetics the placement of these genera within Pezizomycotina remained tentative; morphological characters were misleading because they do not produce multicellular ascocarps, a defining character of Pezizomycotina.

And the actors, most of whom I know are capable of better things, register as so confused and tentative about their characters that I sometimes had the impression they were making up their lines as they went along.

Ms. Keaton, 64, has after all spent the better part of a near 40-year film career playing an assortment of tentative, endearingly flighty characters, masking her allure beneath layers of cloth, her face and frame obscured by bowler hats, oversize jackets, calf-grazing skirts and gloves — to say nothing of the high-necked sweaters she has worn for years like talismans.

Schwartzman's character is tentative, provisional, making himself up as he goes along; he's like a piece of writing as it's being written — by definition, a work in progress.

Schwartzman's character is tentative, provisional, making himself up as he goes along; he's like a piece of writing as it's being written by definition, a work in progress.

The girl in the wet T-shirt has but a tentative grip on his character.

The emotions are quiet, and the connections among the characters feel tentative and fragile.

Filmmakers like the DuPlass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynne Shelton and Lena Dunham often have mute, tentative or socially withdrawn characters who can't make sense of the world (the film, Jeff Who Lives at Home, for example is typical -- a 30-year old slacker emerges from his shell by saving someone's life).

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