This partly explains the tentative, self-conscious quality of the buildings and the urban composition they produced.
Synthesizers and programmed drumbeats percolate through the introspection and tentative self-affirmation of songs by Indians, from Copenhagen.
Now, as then, the cold certainties of his rightwing pronouncements are difficult to square with their tentative, self-effacing delivery.
Morandi painted some striking landscapes and the odd, tentative self-portrait, but the arenas of his greatness were the tabletops in his small studio.
Directed by Eric Schaeffer, the show and its characters are gawky, sincere, tentative, self-contradictory and given to home truths that are expounded on as if they were discoveries of new planets.
The more tentative, brilliantly self-questioning side of Freud is not much in evidence.
The women were more tentative and self-conscious, on tiptoe about whether it would be OK to talk".
Just once, a few minutes before the interval, a tentative, almost self-conscious chant of 'There's only one David Beckham' was taken up by a few supporters in the Stretford End, although it failed to catch on and was never tried again.
But Mr. Gondry seems unable to find the right comic rhythm, and Ms. Arquette and Mr. Robbins, as a fur-covered nature writer and a priggish behavioral scientist who discover a feral ape man in the woods outside New York, seem as tentative and self-conscious as guest hosts stuck in a long "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
His first "Seatonian Prize" poem, On the Eternity of the Supreme Being is part of two traditional types of religious writing: "authoritative discourse of religious poetry" and "tentative and self-critical discourse of an apparently more personal devotion" In connecting the two, he redefines "the role of the religious poet".
Instead, Ms. Jarvis's tentative, sometimes opaque self-presentation registers the crucial fact about Mia, which is her confusion.
