Sentence examples for tentative sense from inspiring English sources

Eventually, she achieved at least a tentative sense of belonging in their social scheme.

Affleck suggests that a merely tentative sense of honor can become pure anguish; he's almost moving.

I used my 48-hour pass to expand my first tentative sense of South Africa, which is hosting the World Cup with grace and competence.

From folk music to food, fiction to TV drama, there is a tentative sense of a renewed cultural Englishness beginning to creep into the light.

But as the pace quickens, the footwork rocks and swivels and tightly choreographed patterns form around Roberts: the community physically knits together to form a tentative sense of continuity and hope.

Mr. Ouattara had seemed to make headway in re-establishing a tentative sense of normalcy on Friday, announcing a campaign to restore electricity and water after a week of fighting in Abidjan, the economic capital seized by his forces in their push to oust the nation's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo.

And his comments resonate with a tentative, complicated sense of his life, not with the resounding triumph of a Hollywood ending.

Still, the show had a slightly tentative feel, a sense that doing it at all was the real accomplishment.

In a tentative and preliminary sense, info-gap risk appears either as low immunity to failure or as limited opportunity for windfall.

Of course, as Rule 54(b) provides, virtually all interlocutory orders may be altered or amended before final judgment if sufficient cause is shown; yet that does not make all pretrial orders "inherently tentative" in the sense of that phrase in Coopers & Lybrand.

One possibility becomes evident once we notice that most of our aims are tentative in the sense that we adopt them in the expectation that we may later revise them.