Sentence examples for was somewhat tentative from inspiring English sources

Still, as in the Poulenc, the performance was somewhat tentative.

The band didn't quite mesh; the rhythms were a little stiff, the interaction between the two saxophonists was somewhat tentative.

On Saturday night the audience was somewhat tentative, not quite sure whether to applaud after a particularly stunning circus routine.

The mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, one of the most lovely Dalilas ever, sings with dusky, rich tone and affecting expressivity, though on opening night her work was somewhat tentative.

Their conclusion had to be somewhat tentative, however, because precise values were not available for all these variables.

It was one of the first rehearsals, so the informally dressed cast and their director were somewhat tentative, but jovial.

"It seems to be somewhat tentative," Peter Cardillo, president and chief strategist of Global Partner Securities Inc., said of the trading.

Even if mainstream audiences are somewhat tentative towards less fantasy-oriented storytelling, director Devashish Makhija says: "If we start manufacturing more interesting cinema the tastes will change".

(Hudson is somewhat tentative about endorsing this view, as opposed to merely endorsing the claim that it looks better than its many rivals, but for expository purposes I'll refer to it here as his view).

If indeed the description is somewhat tentative, this fact has been acknowledge by the author himself, and ought to be attributed to the fact that a systemic functional description of BH was not the main focus of the author's research.

His endorsement was somewhat more tentative than that given by former prime minister John Howard in 2007.