Sentence examples for tentative feelings from inspiring English sources

"It's hard to determine whether spending on credit is a sign of optimism or a sign of distress, but just anecdotally we feel there is the beginning of tentative feelings of comfort in taking on slightly more debt," said Dana Saporta, a United States economist at Credit Suisse in New York.

Working through his grief, Parker eventually develops tentative feelings toward Watson, and the two "become confidants rather than lovers".

Rather, the film's mood of longing and its tentative feeling of optimism come from within, from the way Victor and Judy begin to perceive each other, and the world around them.

Usually, she begins a book in a tentative fashion, feeling her way in, testing the ground, but this time it was as though she'd been thrown into the lowest, darkest part of it right away.

The choreography seems tentative, with a feeling of simple experimentation; the costumes, by Otto Bubenicek, are individualized but retain the feeling of practice wear; the music, in four movements and piano-based, is both original and attractive.

His prose is often something to behold: impacted and intense, constantly interrogated by qualifications and caveats, tentative, precise, always feeling for its footing.

By John Colapinto February 27 , 2013A few people have mentioned to me that Adele seemed a little restrained in the live performance of her Oscar-winning song "Skyfall" at the Academy Awards — with the implication that perhaps the surgery that she underwent to remove her vocal polyp has left her feeling tentative about her voice.

I would be feeling very tentative about whether he had achieved the goals he had set out".