Sentence examples for tentative persona from inspiring English sources
A wobble-spirited, wobble-bellied, Parkin, a more tentative persona than the abrasive Vegas, greets his spectators/prospective buyers at the door of the house (equipped with 'liquid flush-toilet' and 'water-dispensing body-wash shower').
Here among stacked reels of film in his basement office at Sever Hall, where he teaches filmmaking, he was careful, however, to insist on some distance between him and what he called "the somewhat tentative, indecisive persona that I throw up there on the screen, which is me to a considerable extent, but not completely me".
If she is, once again, a bit tentative and awkward in her new persona, it's heartening that in this day and age "literary fiction writer" is something a famous person might want to be — just as in 1988 it was heartening that an ingénue, already rich beyond her wildest dreams, might want to be a serious actress in a dark, gritty movie.
As for his own persona, Jeb seemed weak and tentative, almost apathetic.
Her opening salvos are tentative; what follows – an introduction to her dramatis personae – is jolly but unnecessary.
It's a tossup which persona gets Ms. Applegate more laughs: the tentative, guilt-stricken Good Sam or her longer-haired, gleefully amoral counterpart.
In person, Cusack is more declamatory and Giamatti more tentative, in keeping with their reputations (if also neatly reversing their on-screen personas).
Gornick's own persona on the page is successful, in large part because of her great ability to enact her ambivalence without making the tone of her memoir tentative.
