Tamely

Álvarez poked a near-post effort tamely wide from a Jack Grealish cross.

He presented Phil Foden with an early opportunity when he gave the ball away but escaped as the England midfielder shot tamely.

United’s players had been guilty of wasting chances of their own before that goal with Bruno Fernandes missing the target with a far post header and Marcus Rashford firing tamely at Alisson with only the goalkeeper to beat.

Aaron Pressley headed Dan Butler's cross tamely at Marko Marosi, and Mal Benning saw his free-kick from distance easily collected by Taye Ashby-Hammond.

Jackson failed to deliver again early in the second half after breaking clear in the area but shooting tamely at Ortega.

Lamela tries a shot that Leno palms tamely right into the path of Eriksen, who cannot miss.

One of the more tamely-named is Rita’s Pushup, which involves a combination of marshmallow and orange vodka.

Root seemed to be caught in two minds as he tamely steered to gully, Stokes under-edged a booming cut on to his stumps while Ollie Pope carelessly extended himself to reach a wide full toss, only to bunt to cover.

P V Sindhu finished second best yet again in a major tournament final as she went down tamely to Carolina Marin in the World Championships’ women’s singles title clash, adding to the Indian’s tale of woes here today.

And, even if Charles could have persuaded his men to look tamely on while the Arabs stormed more towns and desolated more districts, he could not have kept an army together when the usual period of a military expedition had expired.

It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe.

Like Margaret, he appeared to be dispirited by the news of Tewkesbury and the Prince's death, and later rather tamely surrendered himself and his ships.

Second, Hooker had to stay tamely on the defensive.