The interactions we've dreamed of may be packed with uncomfortable pauses, gingerly approached embraces, hesitations before crossing a bar's threshold.
" We're still square, " said Harry, testing his leg gingerly; it shook violently as he put weight on it; he had sprained his ankle when the spider had dropped him.
And when we steamed slowly out of the lagoon, making our way gingerly through the opening in the reef, and then steered for the open sea, a certain melancholy fell upon me.
He fell, face forward, onto cold stone and felt the bridge of his glasses snap. Dizzy and bruised, covered insoot, he got gingerly to his feet, holding his broken glasses up to his eyes.