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Meanings of tentativeness in English
Spanish
hesitación Tendancy to hesitate.
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Examples for "reticence"
Examples for "reticence"
1
Really, she had no sense of reticence when it came to injustice.
2
At this crisis she displayed a self-control and reticence which were admirable.
3
I understand your reticence, but I only have a message to deliver.
4
There is the evidence of extreme reticence and moodiness in Fuller always.
5
One would hope Gatland expresses no such reticence in the dressing room.
1
In fact, Brazil's hesitancy is symptomatic of the countries' increasingly complex relationship.
2
On Friday he emphasized his hesitancy to use his broad clawback power.
3
But there are strategic reasons for Pakistan's hesitancy to attack the Haqqanis.
4
The same hesitancy was repeated as he began his second counseling session.
5
Stan must have mistaken my hesitancy for disapproval because he spoke quickly.
1
When things change, you can and must expect resistance, questions, and hesitance.
2
James was fairly good at Technomancy despite his hesitance to admit it.
3
The same logic applies to Washington's hesitance to openly arm the Kurds.
4
Without hesitance she mounted the steps; he followed, a step behind.
5
She could also make clear her reason for hesitance and deliberation.
1
Thus it was only military indecisiveness that postponed the shutdown so long.'
2
The original subheading used the word prevarication where indecisiveness was meant.
3
All the indecisiveness of the interchange of guesses and rehearsed impressions was gone.
4
Despite this apparent indecisiveness, Artyom felt in his bones a threat from it.
5
At least there could be no accusations of indecisiveness and lack of leadership.
Usage of tentativeness in English
1
The fact that he remained standing imparted a tentativeness to the situation.
2
The reward came with an opener that highlighted the tentativeness of Boro.
3
His very ignorance and tentativeness may be, must be, a means of especial grace.
4
He nodded and swung away, moving with a peculiar tentativeness.
5
They usually represented a first car for lower-middle-class people, who combined inexperience with extreme tentativeness.
6
Though she chose her words with uncharacteristic tentativeness, she was coherent, clearheaded, and obviously not drugged.
7
How drawings change - even 24 hours after a death; their tentativeness disappears, they become final.
8
The tentativeness and the degree to which Arsenal can overcome it make for an absorbing tale.
9
He shook countless hands, squeezed countless shoulders, and lost all tentativeness in blessing all those who asked.
10
The unstable compositions catch the looseness of the social arrangements-thetentativeness of the links between black and white.
11
It's time to clear away the tentativeness about the ideas you've had and take first steps toward manifesting them.
12
Lute's eyes were quizzical as she asked with a tentativeness that was palpably assumed, "With-a-withMr. Barton?"
13
She recognized him by his tentativeness, the wary, unsure glance of a person being met by someone he doesn't really know.
14
Jazz coach Quin Snyder said taking care of the ball came about because his team did not play with any tentativeness.
15
He did it sketchily, with casual tentativeness, so that when it was found among the papers there would be no suspicions.
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I only thought," he went on, with tenderer tentativeness, "that it would be pleasant to work here near you."
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