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at first blush

ADVERB
  1. as a first impression
    at first blush the offer seemed attractive

How To Use at first blush In A Sentence

  • The exercise of judicial discretion in a case such as the present may seem at first blush a picayune matter.
  • A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet.
  • He bowed and scraped and smiled, and acknowledged that his conduct might at first blush appear strange, but really it was not, inasmuch as his teeth were not chattering from fear -- oh, dear no! oh, certainly not! he marvelled how the 'messieurs' could think of such a thing Allan Quatermain
  • Assuming the patient is identified as noncomplying which process may raise Fourth Amendment issues, enforcement by quarantine until the patient complies with and completes treatment appears at first blush to be constitutional. The Volokh Conspiracy » Only Two Things Scare Me:
  • At first blush, this seems absurd. Christianity Today
  • At first blush, it may appear that this brilliant bit of reflexive storytelling is being played for laughs, especially because it has so many of the show's adult characters in tizzies of varying intensity. Ed Martin: One Life to Live Entertainingly Reflects on Its Own Demise
  • At first blush, the winning idea can seem a bit loony, but as it comes into focus its transformative value gets clearer and clearer to more people.
  • The idea that women could do these things to women seems at first blush to potentially invalidate these theories.
  • Things aren’t often what they appear to be at first blush. But embarrassment is. Jarod Kintz 
  • At first blush, this discovery seems to confirm his theory.
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