It was Clemens's first start since he beaned the Mets' Mike Piazza and was accused of doing so intentionally, and some of his teammates -- Manager Joe Torre among them -- were not sure how he would react, if Clemens would become tentative, for fear that he might hit somebody again and raise more allegations.
That process of bridging divisions, though, feels tentative, and the fears delivered by the retired men at the tea shop in Silivri were far more common.
Can I also refer you to chapters headed "Tentative, Doctrineless Socialism", "The Fear of Action" and "Paralysis as Ideology".
For them, the department's tentative map is causing considerable fear and anger.
There is no need to be tentative about these views for fear they somehow make you, I suppose, "unreal". They do not.
Instead, the jokes come from the situations in which she finds herself while campaigning, particularly the fear that a tentative progress might spell the end of her comedy career as she'd be left with nothing to complain about, "and it's taken me 10 years to come up with this persona".
Others are less sanguine, fearing that the tentative recovery will allow policy makers to do less, not more.
The quake struck just as the economy was starting to register growth again, and has raised fears that the tentative recovery will at least be delayed.
Sally is curious about and then frightened by the news of the Chicago murders and her fear leads to a tentative thawing of relations with her stepgrandmother, Pauline.
Given that he is not instinctively drawn to animals (he seems to prefer gasoline engines to ambient beings), I watched with pride as his relationship with the goats progressed from fear to toleration to tentative interactions.
