When confronted with medical technology from older time periods, the character often react apprehensively or skeptically to the relatively outdated modern procedures.
They seemed a world ahead of my own son who was, like most of his peers, somewhat apprehensively launching into his educational career as a cautious kindergartener.
The ladies, looking at the reporter apprehensively, admitted having the phone but explained it was not on display as it was being recalled from the market by the parent body.