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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.
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  • 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.
  • In fact we might say that at first sight the Institutional Theory is practically required by Duchamp's first unassisted ready-made.
  • We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  • It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
  • At first sight, the issue has surfaced in its seediest, least appetising form. As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it?
  • Mozart, at the age of three, learnt the clavecin by watching his sister play; a year afterwards he composed admirably, at the age of seven he played the violin at first sight without having had any teacher, and proved himself a composer of genius before he reached his twelfth birthday. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
  • Don’t judge men or things at first sight. 
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • The idea of love at first sight, though attractive to women in theory, terrifies them in practice.
  • At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman.
  • On the whole, then, I see nothing very strange either in orthodoxy lying in what at first sight appears like subtle and minute exactness of doctrine, or in its being our duty to contend even to confessorship for such exactness. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
  • The use of Peano arithmetic is fairly pervasive in mathematical physics, hence, at first sight, this appears to be highly damaging to the prospects for a final Theory of Everything in physics. Archive 2009-06-01
  • At first sight the most remarkable mineral of the vein is villiaumite.
  • Her latest novel seems at first sight to be a reworking of similar themes.
  • Every watch features an important technical detail which is not visible at first sight but has a major influence on its accuracy under harsh conditions - the anti-magnetic cage.
  • The _asses_ and _loads_ being all marked and numbered with red paint, a certain number of each was allotted to each of the six messes, into which the soldiers were divided; and the asses were further subdivided amongst the individuals of each mess, so that every man could tell at first sight the ass and load which belonged to him. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
  • At the top, a pretty banderole, which appears at first sight to form a part of the _ensemble_ of the curves, completes the design. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
  • Do these chinks through which the pollen escapes correspond (as would at first sight seem probable) to the margins of the antheral leaf, or do they answer to the lines that separate the two pollen-cavities on each half of the anther one from the other? Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The Mini PC's solid cast-aluminium casing oozes quality and it's hard not to fall in love with it at first sight.
  • At first sight, the painting seems a piece of outright naturalism but detail indicates all is not what it seems.
  • The Credit Suisse results may not be as bad as they appear at first sight when allowance is made for own-credit losses, which are meaningless in economic terms, but there are some disturbing aspects, notably at the investment bank," said Peter Thorne, London-based analyst with independent brokerage Helvea. Credit Suisse's Profit Shrinks
  • Individual points along a spectrum, on the other hand, seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another.
  • At first sight, the Atlas of World Art edited by John Onians (Laurence King £75) is a truly original and endlessly enlightening book, the answer to numberless prayers born of ignorance.
  • Munich suffers more at every visitation than almost any other European city, and typhus, which is always at home within its limits, are not, properly speaking, climatal diseases, it would seem at first sight unnecessary to consider the situation of Munich in this respect. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • At first sight it looked appalling, but I could see it had sound structure, fantastic quality of light and great potential.
  • It's love at first sight when a gawky, quirky insect arrives in this bustling community and a fabulous ladybug catches his eye – and the feeling is mutual.
  • At first sight, the emergence of the EU as a regional grouping seems to be in contradiction with the direction and thrust of globalization.
  • The use of Peano arithmetic is fairly pervasive in mathematical physics, hence, at first sight, this appears to be highly damaging to the prospects for a final Theory of Everything in physics. Archive 2009-06-01
  • i fall in love with you at first sight.
  • She didn't believe in grand passion or love at first sight.
  • It would appear at first sight, as if the discovery of these vortices would at once remedy the great defect in the theory of Redfield, viz.: that no adequate cause is assigned for the commencement and continuation of the vorticose motion, in the great circular whirlwinds which compose a storm. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • Fourth, the inessential 'unpractical' activities are themselves far more connected with our behavior and our adaptation to the environment than at first sight might appear. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
  • I fall in love with you at first sight.
  • On the topic of wines for example, I find many passable, others interesting, some great and quite a few awful ones which I would describe as unlove at first sight. Serge the Concierge
  • He was not at first sight at all the epitome of a sympathetic country parson, nor was Ruth the typical parson 's wife. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • `The problem is trickier than it looks at first sight, isn't it? WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • At first sight it looked less like a capital city than a mining camp.
  • At first sight, this would appear to be a Community instrument instructing Member States as to how to exercise their national competence.
  • Don’t judge men or things at first sight. 
  • The overhead shots of the circus ring seem at first sight to be POV yet in the shots of Lola her eyes alternate between moving in panic and being actually shut.
  • Love at first sight.
  • Come on now, Peter, please don't try to flatter me with some kind of cockamamy line about love at first sight," she said, giving him a look that told him she wouldn't begin to believe it if he tried. From This Beloved Hour
  • His button eyes, his nubby fur, his watch-collar - he may not be the spiffiest dog on the block, but for Pets.com it was love at first sight.
  • Passion defines your relationships: you either fall for someone at first sight or marry in haste.
  • I fall in love with you at first sight.
  • At first sight, this month's trade data do not seem a cause for celebration.
  • These bodies move in planes at all possible inclinations in orbits extremely eccentrical and without any general direction -- as many moving contrary to the direction of the planets as in the opposite direction; and when we consider their great volume, and their want of mass, it appears, at first sight, that comets do present a serious objection to the theory. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • It was all these, no doubt, that had so strengthened and enriched the love at first sight, which had shaken the equilibrium of his positive existence; and yet he now viewed all these as subordinate to the one image of mild decorous matronage into which wedlock was to transform the child of genius, longing for angel wings and unlimited space. The Parisians — Complete
  • The missing forefinger to the hand of the potto [299] would appear at first sight to have been lost by some such mishap. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
  • At first sight the tsetse fly is very similar to a housefly - being black and only slightly larger.
  • At first sight, it was dark and only faint silhouettes could be seen with the faint light radiating from the doorway.
  • At first sight, the grotty cotton balls seem like an affront, but a funny one that quickly gives way to an appreciation of the literal saturation of color they accomplish, and the way they morph at a distance into flowers.
  • Was it love or loathing at first sight? Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Love at first sight' is a very apt description of how he felt when he saw her.
  • And, since she had learned that any person, at first sight of her, was likely to go into ecstasies: Oh what a beautiful cat! ON CATS
  • That the lines form a system; that, instead of running anywhither, they join certain points to certain others, making thus, not a simple network, but one whose meshes connect centres directly with one another,–is striking at first sight, and loses none of its peculiarity on second thought. Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • it was love at first sight
  • Celia Fiennes in 1698 described ‘villages of sad little huts I took them at first sight for barns to fodder cattle in.’
  • At first sight, those cliffs seemed completely unscalable, but to anyone with a good head for heights, climbing is easy on a world where all weights are only a sixth of their normal value. Tin
  • The deep and dark violet lower lips appear to be black at first sight.
  • There is a possibility of love at first sight and even a hasty marriage.
  • At first sight, the table makes for rather grim reading.
  • At first sight you may mistake bouldering for cliff climbing.
  • At first sight his five interlinked billboards, showing a series of outdoor scenes, exude a sense of relaxation and contentment.
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • At first sight, then, the issue would not seem to be on the agenda.
  • At first sight, to say that the defendant's nonfeasance did not cause the plaintiff's loss seems to provide a sort of objective criterion for not imposing liability.
  • It was love at first sight for me, a thick, almost one-coater cream taupe with, yes, khaki and mushroomy undertones. Archive 2009-04-01
  • P. parae females prefer red and yellow males at first sight, but so do cichlids, their main predator. Ars Technica
  • But an event in the history of salvation becomes a miracle from the fact that something _extraordinary_, something _new_, happens in it, which by its newness and its extraordinary character presents itself to man as the manifestation of certain divine _ends in salvation_, and can be explained _at first sight_, but only at first sight, from nothing else than from the service which it renders to the plan of redemption. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
  • At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy.
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • It shows the reasons for what would seem at first sight to be mindless vandalism, but are in fact little acts of rebellion.
  • One way in which a language lives and grows is by modifying existing meanings and employing them in new contexts, and it is the poets who contribute most to this process.. bqb As an example from Shakespeare we can take the word quietus which at first sight seems not to lend itself to poetry at all. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4
  • At first sight, the Shark Bay stromatolites look like rocks lying in an orderly fashion in the intertidal zone.
  • Shanghai is, at first sight, a city of glaring neon lights , frenetic pace and sky - scrapers.
  • At first sight, there didn't appear to be much damage.
  • The interior of the church -- often called Giotto's Chapel -- is somewhat cold and bare at first sight; but the beauty of the paintings, which are in a very fair state of preservation, considering their age, speedily dispels this idea. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
  • The monastery sits on a great crag of rock overlooking the orchards and olive groves of the Damascene plain, and at first sight, with its narrow windows and great rugged curtain walls, looks more like a Crusader castle than a convent.
  • The young couple fell in love at first sight.
  • At first sight it looked less like a capital city than a mining camp.
  • Do you believe in destined love/love at first sight? Beating back blocks with knowledge! «
  • At first sight, it might seem that habituation is nothing more than some sort of fatigue process in the relevant sensory or motor neural pathways.
  • Everybody liked him at first sight because he was always smiling and was always attentive to the person he was talking to.
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • Even painting, which at first sight would seem to be resistant to digitization, has become absorbed in the process, as artists mimic the look of photography and as photographers create elaborate tableaux.
  • Accordingly, it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy.
  • Her latest novel seems at first sight to be a reworking of similar themes.
  • In order to find out what this mysterious energy really is, astronomers need to compare astrophysical observations that are at first sight completely unrelated.
  • At first sight it might seem strange to consider unconscious forces within a concept of consciousness.
  • An attentive consideration will, however, show the enquirer, that to distinguish man from the remainder of the animal kingdom by his structural characteristics alone, is not so easy a task as would at first sight appear; and he will be obliged at length to return to some such humiliating designation of the _genus animal_, _species homo_, as those above given. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
  • It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category.
  • At first sight the house appeared to be empty than it really is.
  • It was love at first sight and on our first date he gave me a Fabergé bracelet.
  • At first sight, much of this conceptual art seemed either flip or overly theoretical.
  • At first sight it's all relaxed coffee shops and cobbled alleyways. The Sun
  • At first sight, you've got a police procedural. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was love at first sight of this bicolor so Buddy was added to the collection which can be seen in total on the sidebar page listing, Plants We Grow-Daylilies, or click here. Denizens Of The Dark « Fairegarden
  • It promised to be a more difficult undertaking than might appear at first sight.
  • Punch-drunk with a case of love at first sight, Leonide breaches the garden walls and woos her way toward Agis through both of his defenders, Hesione and Hermocrates. Olney Theatre's 'Triumph of Love' has great comedy, performances and music
  • At first sight, the barn owl doesn't appear to have ears at all, unlike its cousin, the long-eared owl.
  • On the other hand, the word italicized in the next example may well puzzle a good many readers without its hyphen; it has quite lately come into use in this country ( 'Chiefly U. S.' says the Oxford Dictionary, which prints the hyphen, whereas Webster does not), and is in danger of being taken at first sight for a foreign word and pronounced in strange ways. Hyphens.
  • It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin. Heretics
  • i fall in love with you at first sight.
  • At first sight, it may look like a generous offer, but always read the small print.
  • At first sight the numeral prefix, 6, appears to belong, postfixed, to glyph 23-a-17. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
  • Judge not of men and things at first sight. 
  • She's petite, blonde and fit and it was love at first sight for me. The Sun
  • Is love at first sight real, and is beauty only skin deep? The Sun
  • Passion marks all what you do this week: there are chances of your falling in love at first sight or getting into a hasty marriage.
  • Judge not of men and things at first sight. 
  • I never believed in love at first sight, I still don't really but for the next month or so I really hurt and just sat around moping.
  • In fact, one of the at first sight rather frustrating observation was that lysates of lambda-gal, which indeed could still cause the infected host cell to lyse as does wild type phage lambda, did not contain any structural components of lambda (phage particles, heads or tails) discernible in the electron microscope. Werner Arber - Autobiography
  • At first sight the house appeared to be empty than it really is.
  • Don’t judge men or things at first sight. 
  • We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
  • This was another case of ordinary life being more interesting than it looked at first sight.
  • At first sight each story appears to be a perfect miniature world, as neat and complete as a snowglobe. Times, Sunday Times
  • And though Widow Precious felt her heart go pitapat at first sight of another Mrs. Mordacks, she made up her mind, with a gulp, not to let this cash go to the Thornwick. Mary Anerley
  • At the core of the prophetic text we find a word which seems contradictory, at least at first sight.
  • Wearing expesive clothes and jewelry , he appears a wealthy man at first sight.
  • We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  • Most married women surveyed said they were not victims of love at first sight and not moved to marriage by romance.
  • She didn't believe in grand passion or love at first sight.
  • She didn't believe in grand passion or love at first sight.
  • At first sight this may seem a welcome antidote to the more literal-minded readings of earlier scholarship that tended to regard every seated man with a book roll in his hand as a professional philosopher.
  • At first sight difficult to associate tendency to larkiness with austerity of Member for Oxford University. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914
  • It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category.
  • It was love at first sight.
  • At first sight, he seemed still a youth, with his creamy, unlined skin and his aching awareness of his muscular pose. THE BROKEN GOD
  • It promised to be a more difficult undertaking than might appear at first sight.
  • At first sight this patriotism seems innocuous. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first sight this would seem to answer our stability question in the affirmative.
  • In the fall and in the winter the range of variability is narrowed, and at first sight the plants often seem to bear only quinquefoliolate leaves. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • Fifth Day are so unlike each other in many respects that we might at first sight wonder that they should have been grouped together; but the more we study Reptiles -- so called from the Latin word _reptilis_, creeping -- the more we see that there are many things which this great family of vertebrate animals have in common. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
  • Maverick Pluto gets to work and dislike at first sight turns into love. The Sun
  • Don’t judge men or things at first sight. 
  • Anti-discrimination laws might seem at first sight to not to affect this interplay of small corrections, but they do.
  • It seems that many hardish maths problems are about using some type of ‘trick’ or method which is not obvious at first sight.
  • At first sight, it seems hyena-esque, haunches lower than hackles, kind of shifty-looking. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • In some cases it was not clear at first sight whether exclusive possession was in fact granted.
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • Robyn describes Cairo as wonderful but crazy, although for her it was love at first sight when she saw the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, with its long-sweeping corniches, beautiful beaches and history.
  • At first sight the choice appears not difficult to make, for although so laical and original a work had proved to be popular, yet such popularity was hardly of a nature to appeal to so devout a Christian as one who had already attained episcopal rank. The Book-Hunter at Home
  • At first sight this focus on the home might seem to impose a general standard of what is suitable for family viewing.
  • The deal might look strange at first sight. Times, Sunday Times
  • This may at first sight appear as a magic solution to a complex problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Judge not of men and things at first sight. 
  • This species at first sight seems like a variety of the preceding one, but the petioles of the eyes are shorter and thicker, the costal stripes of the wings are interrupted, and the shade on the discal transverse vein is more diffuse. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • At first sight, the problem of whether one can find a tiling of the plane by shapes which will only tile non-periodically, seems lighthearted.
  • It was ‘hate at first sight’, but my Uncle Rob had made a deathbed promise to my father to take care of me after he died.
  • The young couple fell in love at first sight.
  • We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • The charge of blasphemy seems puzzling at first sight. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Gaining recognition for climbing would appear, at first sight, to be a tricky business.
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • The back cover, with what looks at first sight like a grainy shot of her as a poet-movie star is backgrounded by text.
  • The contrast with sedentary tribes could not, at first sight, be more marked.
  • At first sight the menu was fearsomely unexciting.
  • At the beginning of her watch, at first sight of storm, the captain had ordered the sails hauled down and clewed up. Ship Of Magic
  • At first sight, the statements issued by the major churches might seem surprising.
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
  • At first sight, the concept of ‘handedness’ is inapplicable to completely limbless animals, and thus it is difficult to imagine a right-handed snake.
  • In addition, the author points out that contemporary conflict is being conducted on four interrelated levels, in a hierarchic top-down structure from the political, strategic, operational to the tactical level, what seems at first sight no different from the classical definition of war by Von Clausewitz according to which war is the continuation of politics by other means. Preparing the Ground for Military Aggression Against Venezuela and Latin America
  • This may at first sight appear as a magic solution to a complex problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first sight such an idea seems outrageous stuff and nonsense.
  • It takes a bold executive to ignore what at first sight seems the bedrock of their support, but it must be done. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first sight the house appeared to be empty than it really is.
  • He also falls in love at first sight with Kokintz's daughter, before spiriting both away, with the Q bomb in hand, back to Grand Fenwick.
  • At first sight, Corsica presents the aspect of a chaos of mountains piled one on another, with their escarped sides rising from the sea to great elevations; but on a closer examination, and with the assistance of an accurate map, it is soon perceived that these mountains, apparently heaped up in wild confusion, are distinctly arranged in three principal directions, — from north-east to south-west, from north-west to south-east, and from north to south. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
  • He heard a clip-clopping hoise, and then around the corner came an archaic pony-trap, full of young people in what seemed at first sight to be fancy dress: the men in tight black trousers studded at the calf with silver buttons, their white shirts open almost to the waist; the women in wide skirts of frills and layers and bright colours, scarlet, emerald, gold. The Satanic Verses
  • They fell in love with each other at first sight.
  • The ordinary or medium class contains from 25 to 27 per cent of soluble phosphate; and here it may be pointed out that by soluble phosphate is meant the percentage of tribasic phosphate which has been dissolved -- not, as might at first sight be supposed, the percentage of monocalcic phosphate. Manures and the principles of manuring
  • `Not a very prepossessing one, at first sight, but perhaps he'll improve on acquaintance. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
  • These are complex ideas designedly imperfect: and it is visible at first sight, that several of those qualities that are to be found in the things themselves are purposely left out of generical ideas. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Since my immediate concern was with chewing rather than digesting I had rejected ‘stomatology’ at first sight. Teeth
  • He wears silk clothes , and can be seen as a wealthy person at first sight.
  • At first sight, you've got a police procedural. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight.
  • Since the first time I saw you,I felt something inside,I dont know if its love at first sight,I do know I really like you a lot. Tanya C Medeiros.
  • We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  • At first sight, you might think this fact vindicates economic dirigisme - but only if you had no idea what the Italian state is actually like.
  • It's a little puzzling at first sight how five maltsters could exist in a town in which there was only one brewer.
  • In some cases it was not clear at first sight whether exclusive possession was in fact granted.
  • At first sight a plushy one: wall to wall plum coloured carpet, but of penny-pinching quality, two fat looking easy chairs with cheap foam seats, a pair of shoulder high metal filing cabinets and a modern afrormosia desk. Rat Race

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