Almodóvar had his dialogue translated into English, and the results were tentative: "I had everything ship shape (or some local expression)." When Juliet went out on the street in Boston and smiled at everyone, he added a marginal note: "Consider if Boston society would naturally accept such Mediterranean behavior as that of being openly looked at in the street".
For many problems, especially economic ones, it might be best not to specify any tentative solutions, but instead to shape economic incentives and let the free market explore the solution space.
Lines and shapes hover in tentative equilibrium in "The Smaller Thing Remaining," with its sooty, maze-like circle balanced by a field of white dots.
But the recovery in Las Vegas — much like the one lifting the nation — is shaping up as fragile and tentative, stirring concern among economists and many of the region's biggest boosters.
So, while the great clouds of dust settle, here's no more than a tentative description of some of the things I see shaping up through the fog.
In the violin sonata Hee-Guen Song offered the shape of elegance balanced by a husky and tentative sound.
In this study we present a tentative conceptual model of proximity morality guiding medical students to shape their own medical ethics education "on the job".
Elements of architecture, fencing and borders, grids and angular shapes all collide and spin around, forming their own tentative abstractions.
Ms. Kowroski doesn't quite shape the great Bizet adagio into one coherent thought, but despite tentative moments, she lights up the role with a mixture of grandeur, fragrance and a fitfully romantic absorption.
The idea that the mystery might have a solution gives the narrative a satisfying shape; it's also gratifying to see Lee offered the most tentative handshake of redemptive human connection.
