There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.
The Scot had hardly been sitting for two minutes when Michael Carrick's poor back-pass was compounded by De Gea whose indecision meant he stuck out a tentative leg rather than emphatically clear the danger.
11.06pm GMT 21st over: New Zealand 52-0 (Fulton 30, Rutherford 21) Fulton slaps Broad for four, on-driving to the titchy spot in front of the sightscreen but he isn't altogether comfortable, tapping out a tentative horse-leg hello with his front foot and being hit firmly twixt bat and pad but bat first.
Deep in rural Anatolia, five teenage sisters start to test out their sexuality, like foals taking their tentative first steps on unsteady legs.
After the first few tentative kisses, she crossed a leg over his lap and straddled him.
Six months after surgery, Mr Fidyka was able to take his first tentative steps along parallel bars, using leg braces and the support of a physiotherapist.
This highly tentative grouping is also based on the fact that the legs and pelvic bones definitively match, and this is the only spare head left in the tomb (which from visual inspection may match too).
Even the beginners' tracks are hair-raising; my tanned, athletic guide, with calves as thick as snooker table legs, shoots down vertical slopes easily while I make tentative progress between hard braking and unconvincing zigzags.
The tentative plan is for Jenkins to build the strength in his leg and increase his range of motion in the next two weeks, followed soon after by surgery.
Remember the tentative first steps of the Bambi-like Nick Riewoldt in 2001, when his pencil-thin arms and legs couldn't yet carry him to the destinations his mind had in store?
She had really long legs, looked a bit like a turkey, with a very small comb and a tentative step in her gait.
