Sentence examples for tentative manner from inspiring English sources

Generally thoughtful, she has a tentative manner that can turn abruptly confrontational.

The Spanish attacker, in any case, was also lifting his own foot in a more tentative manner.

The wholesaler figured that if the competitor entered the market in a tentative manner by offering only one or two tours, that would signify only half-hearted commitment.

Her tentative manner is in vital contrast to the assured, rolling cadences of the pastor at Mr. Gray's funeral, or to the fiery, spluttering rage of a man who was arrested during protests in Baltimore.

It was nothing like the tentative manner with which Moyes had approached the same task 12 months earlier.

Did I get that right?" in a tentative manner brings attention to the overstepping, but still defers to the authority of your leader.

But it is possible to see her as a stray looking to come in from the cold, finding in Swann's early tentative nature, his manners and eventually his generosity the secure love she wants.

He offset his tentative and somewhat fussy manner with humor.

But these lads from a nearby village went about their business with bowed backs and closed faces, and their manner was tentative; their hands shook as they set items down on the starched linen tablecloth.

As a landed aristocrat on the edge of dispossession, she keeps extending her arms in a manner both flamboyant and tentative, hopefully reaching out for connections that she knows will never be made.

But he fidgeted and faffed around, took an age to settle and then, as has been his manner recently, hit a putt so tentative it was never going to reach the hole let alone go in.