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But what if that tentative cosmological connection between entropy and intelligence hints at a deeper relationship?
After some time, however, we had a tentative answer.
First of all, the next time you get a meeting invitation that doesn't have a lot of information in it at all, click the tentative button!
These ideas are very tentative, and that's in part because this needs to be an inclusive and shared project.
Is anybody preferring the Wonderbread at all? (Laughter) I have two tentative male hands.
There is even not a single tentative to foul the viewer into thinking that the bad guy is someone else than the most obvious candidate.
We have moved far beyond this tentative foray into a forbidden area-drug addiction-for the 1950s.
I find this film meretricious, tentative, lethargic, and skillfully a bad choice of entertainment on celluloid.
Steve Cochran leaves prison after 18 years for killing his brutal father when he was only 13, and now he's still a tentative, gawky pubescent operating inside a man's hulky frame.
Throughout his stay there, he tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend played by Audrey Tautou while he begins a tentative flirtation with the wife of the owner of the Spanish house where he is staying at and gets some advice from a lesbian house-mate (Cecile de France) as to how to seduce a woman.
Director Don Hartman, who also scripts, is not able to fully utilize his talent for snappy dialogue because of Pinza's tentative English usage, and the requisite rewriting, coupled with less than total rapport in evidence between the two stars, results in a somewhat raggedy tone to the screenplay, exacerbated by the studio's unkind cutting of many scenes, leading to a confusing ending.
The German-born Luise Rainer brings a tentative but determined Peasant Chinese woman to life in her portrayal of Olan.
With a tear, we face sensitive and tentative feelings with the intent of the film, "Wonderland."
The film's stars, Anthony "ER" Edwards and Mare "Georgia" Winningham, embody a welcome change from the typical Hollywood "beautiful people" leads, and share a great chemistry portraying tentative new lovers who ultimately share a decidedly unusual courtship.
the movie depicts his personal growth, how he begins to reflect and think for himself and become discontent with the collective. he takes a few tentative steps away from the group, and returns - after coming up against challenges when he strikes out on his own or gets pulled back in by other members.
All the subtlety and detail imbued in this screenplay matters little when it is lost in tentative and banal acting.
The opening story is about the tentative, playful relationship between Dong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a shy young farmer who lives with his parents in the Thai countryside and Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), a soldier on furlough from the Thai army.
Costner seems unsure of himself and comes across as tentative and hopelessly wooden, although he and Houston do seem to have a bit of chemistry between them.
With the tentative peace moves stifled, the position of the hawks in his government, particularly that of National Security Adviser Owoye Andrew Azazi, will likely be strengthened.
Only when all of the specific linkages between a high debt burden and the onset of a financial crisis have been identified can one draw even a tentative conclusion about that.
Instead of taking scientific evidence as dogma, we should consider it as tentative information that should be ascribed a level of credibility.
Our tentative answer is no, for three reasons.
We are tentative, however, because commodity markets are volatile.
It is significant that this policy was adopted before Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech in August, in which he announced his tentative plans for quantitative easing.
Nor can they be considered the first tentative steps towards such a shared destiny, in the manner of the 1952 European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, which began the project for European unity.
Eventually, large monetized fiscal deficits will lead to a fiscal train wreck and/or a rise in inflation expectations that could sharply increase long-term government bond yields and crowd out a tentative and so far fragile economic recovery.
The pace of this tentative rapprochement has picked up since, both publicly and behind the scenes.
Yet tentative openings by both Tehran and Washington do not appear ill-fated, in stark contrast to the secret and farcical arms-for-hostages swap that took place under President Reagan in 1986.
Yet, in all but a handful of cases, the response of Europe’s governments has been tentative, at best: acknowledging the need to do more, while fearing the implications.
A tentative arrangement with Musharraf, together with Western support – particularly from the United Kingdom and the United States – eased her return, which hundreds of thousands of people welcomed, though terrorists greeted her with a string of suicide bombings.
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