She challenges the cliche that women are more indirect than men and that tentativeness reflects a lack of confidence.

人们常说女人言行不如男人直接，犹豫不决表示缺乏信心，她就是要向这种陈词滥调挑战。

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Get a sense of their different communication styles (assertiveness, openness, tentativeness, need for reassurance etc.) and prepare to try to accommodate them.

对他们各不相同的沟通方式有一个感觉(独断的，直率的，试探性的，需要再次获得保证的等等)，并准备设法容纳他们。

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Custom normally dictates a certain tentativeness at this point in official declarations.

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Creative gaiety, a sense of fun and play, has been too firmly suppressed by the almost morbid tentativeness of his most recent novels and novellas.

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