Sentence examples for though tentatively from inspiring English sources

At key moments, though tentatively at first, the state switched from hindering the change to promoting it.

Several of the projected pieces are sculptural and refer to 9/11, though tentatively and obliquely, which may still be the only viable way to go.

Rumoured targets include child benefit, now payable to everyone, which the chancellor may claw back from richer people; and MIRAS, the state subsidy to mortgages.But some in Whitehall are looking, though tentatively, even further ahead.

Once the shape of the PSF is inferred (even though tentatively), it is possible to estimate how much light from the source actually falls within the aperture used in photometry.

The idea of graffiti as art was accepted by the art world, though only tentatively, in the late 1970's, when the work of a few hand-picked artists was shown in New York and European galleries.

Against the white, her teeth had a fluorescent ochre sheen, but otherwise she looked regal and appraising and she smiled at all of us, including me — though more tentatively, I thought, at me.

A somewhat similar mixed position has been advanced, though more tentatively, by Foot (2002a and 2002b; see also Scanlon 1995 and 1998: ch. 8).

Oxford, though, shakes my hand tentatively and speaks softly.

Though she started tentatively, she was soon floating soft, high-lying phrases and summoning ample power in climactic moments.

The committee has not set a firm date for the confirmation hearing, the officials said, though lawmakers have tentatively scheduled her to appear the week of March 11.

And yet by the time Podhoretz took over in 1960, the alienation had begun to wane, with the magazine tentatively, though still critically, affirming aspects of American life.