tentativity

The very interesting thing about this article to me is the explicit tentativity of the authors, the respectful hesitancy about the glaring problem that continues in cosmology and physics, if the thesis they are expounding turns out to be falsifiable and wrong, namely that 70% of the energy of our universe is detectable only through intelligent inference, which normally is woefully insufficient as a methodology in science.

Dark Energy 2009

With a dervish fury, Crowell and his trio whirl through the check list of the ages and their falters: the tentativity of innocence in full blush, the transitory moment of being in bloom and knowing, then the almost instant wilting of peak desire.

Holly Gleason: Sex & Gasoline: Rodney Crowell Somewhere in the Rust Belt 2008

If you watched George Bush's press conference, there was some sort of tentativity about it.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Bush Addresses Congress and the Democrats Respond - February 27, 2001 2001

But, for AP to suggest that the tentativity of the "calm" is some unforeseen phenomenon is ludicrous and insulting to readers; it implies that we were all hinging the long-term stability of Iraq on what amounts to the U.S. military's damming and redirecting of the flow of internecine genocide.

Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free detain_this 2008