Despite some tentative phrases, she displayed an innate jazz feel.
It begins with Moreno playing a high, tentative phrase on his guitar.
Next up was a blues, "Sonnymoon for Two," on which Mr. Rollins seemed distracted at first, bleating tentative phrases rather than hitting a stride.
But you can't fault the rest of it, except for a couple of tentative phrases early on from Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang as Alidoro.
In a real-life enactment of every singer's worst nightmare, she sang a few tentative phrases of Osvaldo Golijov's Lua Descolorida before stopping mid-flow and announcing that she had lost her voice just minutes before coming on stage, thanks to a nasty cold.
The second section, "Never Again," used the sampled crash of breaking glass in a passage of anti-rhythmic percussion that deliberately stretched to excruciating length, punctuated by recorded shouts of "Sieg Heil!" "Gahelet (Embers)" was a short, elegiac movement, with tentative violin phrases and the sound of a plaintive old record.
It was tentative in its phrasing: "Could Apple Buy Twitter?" But the post boldly claimed that "a source who's plugged into the Valley's deal scene and has been recruited by Apple for a senior position" was saying negotiations were well under way.
Often, women's speech is peppered with tentative and indirect phrases that scream a lack of confidence, such as, "I'm not really sure, but you could try it this way," or, "Now, I'm not an expert, but... ...... or, "I think this is a good idea — do you?" Many women have also adopted an upward vocal inflection at the end of sentences, a regrettable characteristic popularized by the Valley Girl.
But, as the sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman suggested with the phrase "the tentative pregnancy," testing has also changed the nature of pregnancy.
Table 2 shows a tentative list of words and phrases that label instructions or comments as relating to one dimension or the other.
Each phrase is limpid, but the arguments themselves are tentative, often ambiguous.
