They have the tentative look of visitors to the shore who have forgotten to bring bathing suits.
It gives the court's order granting review a tentative look, as if the justices are less than fully committed to deciding the case.
Recently, I noticed from our window that passersby were slowing down and having a tentative look at something on the pavement outside the block.
But now the industry is taking a tentative look at whether it makes sense to put down larger stakes as the African economy begins to take its place alongside the world's other promising emerging markets.
Andy Bull Owen Gibson: Olympic Stadium takes tentative look at its future A little like the neighbour in the old Tom Waits track, we suspect France are building something in there, in the privacy of their own changing room.
Sloppy and tentative, he looked nothing like the player who averaged 37.7 points on 52.4 percent shooting in carrying the Raptors to a two-games-to-one lead in the series.
How can W., already looking tentative and facing economic and energy woes, compete with that?
Had he lived, he would almost certainly have dominated the postwar English-speaking poetic world with a presence that would have left even Robert Lowell looking tentative.
There he was, dark and bearded, looking tentative and smoldering at the same time, looking like a man I could go nuts for.
Harden did not appear inclined to adventure amid the web of long arms and big bodies that typify the Syracuse zone, as he wandered around the top of the key looking tentative and passive.
Standing at the podium for 30 minutes, he gave long tentative answers before looking at his watch and telling reporters, "One more question".
