| But nonetheless you couldn't escape the general gingerliness of the show, the forced politeness of the proceedings. |
| After some cautious prodding I put some weight on it, checked that the muscles worked both ways and limped downstairs, exploring the outer limits of gingerliness. |
| When it comes to gifts the bottom line is to exercise gingerliness, high esteem and fervency heedless of the item or its price. |
| Sebald approaches this cozy English object with mock-solemn gingerliness, as if he were an anthropologist presenting one of his exhibits. |
| For the past 10 years he has lived with his family in New York, and a reader senses in his rather elaborate approach a gingerliness about going back. |
| He dresses after games with the gingerliness of a man defusing a bomb. |
