Sentence examples for tentative quality from inspiring English sources

He disliked her friend, Josh, but was attracted by her childish, tentative quality.

But he was so score-bound that he seemed nervous, and his singing had a tentative quality.

This lends a tentative quality to any affirmation the protagonist may make, since what porteños proclaim so often proves to be mistaken.

Led by Charles Durning, Spalding Gray and Christopher Noth, under the direction of Ethan McSweeney, the starry ensemble often gives off a frustratingly tentative quality.

He's far sharper and subtler than his looks suggest, with a quiet, tentative quality she finds surprising in so masculine a man.

"The tentative quality of some of the writing suggests that the government might have struggled over the substantive strategy it should adopt as well".

For each question/indication, the evidence profiles were given tentative GRADE quality criteria for each outcome of importance by the systematic reviewers (who did not participate in making guideline recommendations).

We develop a tentative list of quality criteria – a "road map" – tailored to interdisciplinary research in EE, to guide assessments of research quality.

There was an endearingly tentative, even halting, quality to these performances; they ebbed and flowed.

And there's a tentative, probing, investigative quality to the way it moves forward, seeking and searching.

This partly explains the tentative, self-conscious quality of the buildings and the urban composition they produced.