Sentences with phrase «tentative attempt»

The screen images faced the real room, and it was a sort of tentative attempt to embed the screen image into a structure.

Cable's tentative attempt to set out a distinctive position for the Lib Dems indicates that the party still has some way to go in developing and articulating a unique identity likely to appeal to voters at the next election.

One other point that has to be made is that there are tentative attempts being made to address the issue raised by baptism in its relationship to conversion.

The most heartfelt moments in the movie are his tentative attempts at courtship: He knows she can only be interested in his money, but persists in loving her anyway in the hopes that she will admire his decency.

Not exact matches

It's hard to explain briefly, but here's my best attempt: Our friendship led to a tentative romance.

The mysterious origin from which our cosmos came and the even more mysterious future into which it is moving must render us very tentative in our attempts to say what this universe is all about.

In what he admits is «more tentative and exploratory than any other part of my discussion of metaphysics and education» (WPP 86), Brumbaugh attempts to convey some of the elements in this new vision of the aesthetically interesting.

Old Testament scholarship is currently in a state of flux, such that any attempt to state just where and how axial existence emerged in Israel must be very tentative.

Or, to put it another way, can we expect our attempts to incarnate truth in social policy during the week to be taken seriously when we are tentative and modest about these truths on Sunday?

Can some culture's ways of knowing be more in tune or in accord with How - IT - IS Begs the question, maybe, but attempts to wonder and assess «approximations» — tentative and confident — as to relative dys - function - to - function ratios.

Still, I believe this weaker atheist position is distinguishable from strict Agnosticism, in that the strict agnostic doesn't attempt to reach a tentative conclusion because they've decided the conclusion is effectively unreachable.

The tentative showing last year should have been a lesson for Arsenal to not be complacent, and the hope was that the Gunners would start well and attempt to blow Reading away with the quick passing.

After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.

The last two election cycles on Eastern Long Island have seen a self funded Republican with tentative ties to the district attempt to oust six - term incumbent Tim Bishop.

For Ed Miliband, tentative early attempts to shift Labour's position on spending were argued against by Ballsites in shadow cabinet.

For Donald, consciousness is largely a social phenomenon which grew out of those first tentative gestures that our ancestors attempted.

Like you I have been reading around the subject before coming to tentative conclusions; the only thing I'm absolutely confident about is that attempting to draw a parallel with Rosa Parkes is a slimeball move.

bender, the attempted analogy (# 392, # 397) between the decadal hockey stick shenanigans and your own intemperate response to David Stockwell's obscure and tentative blog posts here and on Niche Modeling in the last five days would I think be hilarious to everyone, if you alone did not take yourself so seriously.

Further to this post, a reader has sent us an ingenious example of a novel linguistic construction that attempts to escape the constraints of the English language in order to give the impression that tentative predictions of the future are happening now:

The Owner signed the necessary documents, but when the Developer had created a tentative development plan, the Owner attempted to cancel the agreement.