Happy Birthday. " Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm. . . it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
