Sentence examples for tentative if from inspiring English sources

Inspiration flags at times, and some of the orchestra writing is tentative if not crude, but Blitzstein's operatic juggling of Hellman's 10 principal characters is highly sophisticated.

The Museum of Modern Art has made a tentative, if ultimately disappointing, beginning in "Unreal City," one of the boutique exhibitions that comprise the "Modern Starts" portion of its yearlong "MOMA 2000" reconsideration of its collections.

Thus, a track is labeled again as tentative if a number of sample windows have gone by without any new association (n missed).

We recalibrated our thinking from our moderated hopes, the tentative if we get a child, to the definitive and lovely when.

(The subtitle is tentative; if you have better ideas, send them to me!) It will be published by John Wiley and Sons in early 2012 -- yes, just in time for that election we'll be talking about 24/7 from now on.

The evidence is tentative if it is based on at least one moderate review or if the conclusions of strong reviews conflict (e.g., positive versus null results).

Syrians on the street showed little interest in the process, instead placing their hopes — if tentative — in planned peace talks in Geneva.

Due to the potential for cross-reactivity of sera used in immunodiagnostic methods, we defined cases as having "definitive" speciation if the case was culture-confirmed, and "tentative" speciation if speciation was based entirely on immunodiagnostic methods.

They are tentative innovators, if innovators at all.

Melodies became tentative, as if they might disappear at any moment into the haze of harmony.

Yet he sounded tentative, as if afraid of sticking out too much in this reverberant space.