It must be observed that only with difficulty and in a highly tentative manner can one find common ground between the theories discussed here; in this conversation the participants are talking past one another.

In a rather tentative manner, they made some suggestions on how they thought it could be improved.

He murmured in a tentative manner: "Your brother seems always to have been very much-well, how shall I put it-under your father's thumb."

The Report engages with policy for the universities in a more oblique and tentative manner than for schools or industrial and commercial needs.

"Sit down, darling," I said, in the tentative manner of one addressing a large explosive device.

Geologic Technician Fisher poked his head through the passage in an oddly tentative manner.

As Shannon, Kenneth Gray's faltering vocal attack and tentative manner are not that of a fighter.

The words were bold enough, but ill-matched with his tentative manner.

It appears that finally, although still in a tentative manner, the Lukashenko regime is sending out signals that it is opening up to the international community.

Then one of the brown-robed figures spoke in the polite and tentative manner of a vicar soliciting alms.