at first sight

How To Use at first sight In A Sentence

• He appears, at first sight, to be very like his urbane television character, the radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane.
• At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
• However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
• At first sight it appears to be an ordinary piece of pine lumber set on the floor.
• At first sight it can seem very hard and austere, with a daily schedule comprising set periods of silence, prayer, work and recreation.
• At first sight, it may look like a generous offer, but always read the small print.
• At first sight, they appear as alluring as a soft-top sports car - glamorous, flash and a little racy.
• At first sight, it is your standard-issue Alpine hotel: built on old cattle pasture and still run by the family that owned the cows.
• At first sight, his canvases resemble palettes and drop cloths rather than finished compositions.
• Although at first sight it is a single panel and it is fixed onto a later wooden backing which had a hook at the top, it also has the traces of fixings on the left side.