New arrivals clustered near the refrigerators, which were stocked with beers and LaCroix sparkling water, and made tentative conversation.
The flashbacks to Dawid's life are punctuated by the awkward, tentative conversation between the two women, who are still struggling to find their places in the new world.
It took this chain of events that started with me passing out in public and ended with me having that first tentative conversation with my mother about that day to realise it.
Later on, in the car, we had a tentative conversation that seemed to confirm what he was saying.
Campbell's first tentative conversations were with the New York Times, which has functioned as the Met's in-house newsletter ever since its former chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger took the same title at the museum, and British newspapers.
One to one, Lloyd, 54, is more friendly, but tentative, our conversation punctuated by yawning pauses.
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.
This arrangement was novel to both of us, so our conversations were tentative at first, but we soon grew more comfortable, and excitement over our shared vision blossomed.
Inside the abandoned United Nations compound where the Taliban hosts kept their foreign guests for three days, rank-and-file Taliban soldiers and journalists from all over the world had exchanged tentative smiles and furtive conversations.
Meanwhile, a bunch of hungry directors with digital cameras, time on their hands and not much money are making free-form studies about tentative hookups and long conversations among actual, overeducated, undermotivated young folks.
Most conversation stutters with tentative tics ("like" and "you know"), prompts for affirmation, as though no one wants to risk offending with a definite statement.
