Sentences with phrase «seem tentative»

If they seem tentative or frightened, this may not be the right time to introduce a dog into your household.

«The Last Airbender,» featuring Dev Patel from «Slumdog Millionaire,» is an adaptation of a previous animated series, and although aimed at kids in the end seems tentative and... aimless.

She has a light touch — her paint handling is delicate without seeming tentative or contingent.»

From today's vantage point, much of the work introduced by the «New Image Painting» show seems tentative, caught between two generations of artists.

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It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

Rather, the profound negativities of human existence — personal, societal and historical — seem so pervasive in this age that any route to fundamental trust must be far more circuitous, tentative and even potholed than I had once hoped.

This makes his assumption seem simultaneously tentative and incontrovertible.

But since the theory is presented authoritatively rather than as a tentative system of hypotheses, «theory» seems too weak, and «ideology,» better.

Greene goes to great lengths to avoid giving an ambiguous ending to this novel; it would almost seem that to Greene, salvation is tentative while damnation is sure.

In those clips, Tiger often seemed to take tentative cuts at the ball.

Both Teams seemed to be a bit tentative and it actually led to turnovers for both sides..

The tentative deal on raising the age seemed likely to end the budgetary impasse, which had become a political setback for Mr. Cuomo.

At a time when there are signs that the new government in Iran is taking some tentative steps towards reducing tensions over its nuclear programme, the cost of military intervention seem to outweigh any potential benefits (of which there are few and far between at best).

The tentative agreement came after a confusing day of closed - door negotiations that seemed, at times, destined to result in paralysis.

Some ideas were tentative, while others careened into what seemed like science fiction.

But even this link seems to be a tentative one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19018335

As they start a tentative relationship he captures it all on his digital camera, though nothing about the situation is as straightforward as it seems.

And since Tyler's performance seems equally tentative and wary, everything pretty much stays on the surface.

Take its last visceral revelation as an entry for further contemplation of certain other moments along the way — of why a seduction plays like Bourne's tentative deflowering, why he seems unable to sleep and is fascinated with children, and pay particular attention to the small surprises offered by a dying compatriot - turned - adversary.

Their methods — including an elaborate set of statistical controls for variables like student SES and prior achievement — also allowed them to make tentative causal inferences about which teaching strategies seem to be more effective for students who were stronger or weaker in math to begin with.

It seems likely that the standards will have only a tentative foothold in California schools in 2014 — 15, and that student scores on the new tests will be relatively low.

Nissan seems pretty tentative about the whole hybrid thing, with a lone hybrid model that is only sold in a handful of states (CA, CT, MA, ME, NJ, NY, OR, RI, and VT, to be exact).

In my tentative view this list seems to support the size of a bullet crowd — at least in the first 2 iterations.

Economic growth seems to be on track, especially in the U.S., but it remains tentative and several potential catalysts (e.g., a terrorist attack, bad news from China, saber rattling from an emboldened Russia, a wave of energy sector debt defaults) could undermine growth and trigger a long overdue correction.

Al Catraz went out first followed by Puptart; both seemed a little tentative to run directly into the waves, but once they did - they swam off and never looked back!

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe, seems to be that first tentative step back «home» for them.

The reason for Nintendo's lack of support for the DS and DSi seems to be because most of their attention was busy focused on the Nintendo 3DS, which has kept it's tentative name thus far.

Earlier today it seems Nintendo UK posted tentative release dates for the Zelda: Breath of the Wild Amiibo.

Their interaction seems accidental and tentative, even as they seem to be drawn to each other, sometimes overlapping, sometimes abutting each other, if only for a moment.

The 2013 Vernissage Thursday night seemed much busier, the aisles fuller and most notably, the tentative, «wait and see» buying from last year seems to have given way to something that starts to resemble the confident, urgent buying that galleries hope for.

The other paintings — similarly reduced and shiny silhouettes of young girls, birds and roses — seem much more tentative and arbitrary.

The process that originally went from elemental preparatory drawing to highly finished canvas he seemed to reverse with an art of intimate utterance and tentative expression....

Film - maker Hilary Lloyd looks at the moon and Karla Black, who represented Scotland in Venice in 2011, has presented a beautiful room of painterly sculptures, which seem elegantly faded and purposefully tentative, as well as characteristically exuberant.

It seems like every other month, what has begun to feel like a tentative economic recovery once again starts feeling a whole lot less secure.

The moment one has offered an original explanation for a phenomenon which seems satisfactory, that moment affection for his intellectual child springs into existence; and as the explanation grows into a definite theory, his parental affections cluster about his intellectual offspring, and it grows more and more dear to him, so that, while he holds it seemingly tentative, it is still lovingly tentative, and not impartially tentative.

Unfortunately, most of these firm efforts are so tentative as to deliver very little value, and most seem to indicate a misunderstanding of what Facebook offers that a website doesn't.

People who have never been in sales tend to be very tentative about reaching out to folks or don't want to seem «pushy.

Chris Morgan: So is there any indication to your knowledge from the Department of Education or from FedLoan Servicing, or to anyone else that these certifications that FedLoan was sending out were only supposed to be viewed as tentative because I mean as we know now over the last 10 years it sure seems like people thought they were a sure thing.

Bitcoin seems to be garnering more and more interest from these institutions and is taking tentative steps into the realm of legitimacy.

Though the results are still tentative, it seems like Ethereum is out of the woods.

If you are tentative, this will often be picked up by employers and interpreted as a lack of commitment, making you seem like a potentially risky candidate.