Sentence examples for tentative life from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stevens, as any amused veteran of Hollywood would, makes a feast of Mr. Gray's sardonic tales of superagents and television producers, while Mr. Wood gives heartbreakingly hopeful and tentative life to descriptions of fleeting ecstasy.

Ah Tao finds a tentative social life in the home, a place that Ms. Hui doesn't sentimentalize or make into a cautionary tale.

This could be implied that C. fistula pod pulp decoction extract should enable a tentative shelf life of 24 months [ 24].

"I felt very tentative about my life.

But results in this year's second quarter are showing some tentative signs of life.

Through these unexpected encounters he begins a tentative return to life.

From construction to car sales to mortgage approvals – where once there was torpor, there are now tentative signs of life.

But huge rescue measures and guarantees by the Treasury and Federal Reserve have helped to shore up the credit markets, and some tentative signs of life in the wider economy are now encouraging lenders and borrowers to rethink their apocalyptic outlooks.

Mr. Hayami's rationale seems to be twofold: that higher rates would force Japanese industry to stop relying on cheap money for survival and get on with the painful business of restructuring itself, and that moving rates up now, when the economy is showing tentative signs of life, would give the Bank of Japan the ability to cut them again if the economy goes back into a swoon.

The first chapter establishes "clinical labor" as a novel concept and traces its emergence through a genealogy of tentative articulations of life, labor and value – including Marx's value theory of labor, Chicago school economics, and Italian post-operaismo.

Addressing housing, Larson observes that while we're seeing some tentative signs of life in several hard-hit markets, it's the distressed "fire sale" stuff that's really moving.