It is hard to imagine how a romantic interest would react to first encountering them.
Did the book surprise those of you who are first encountering it now?
Mr. Clark arrived first, encountering a fellow teacher on the street.
Mr. Cantor was born and raised in the Mattapan section of Boston, first encountering the theater as a 4-year-old at the local Yiddish playhouse.
It is difficult to navigate the emotional terrain of the work, but the mindful intention we set when first encountering our patients is how we find this delicate balance.
In previous plays like "Four" and "Where Do We Live" Mr. Shinn has written with exemplary sensitivity about young men and women first encountering the turbulent, destabilizing force of desire.
They made a couple of false starts, first encountering an upholstered dining chair then a $1,400 folding chair inspired by an ancient Roman camp stool, which no sane person would leave out in the rain.
Many people, on first encountering its rasping sonorities, hurtling rhythms, and welters of lament, will be unsure whether they are listening to pop music or to classical music or to some folk ritual of indeterminate origin.
This misunderstanding is astonishing coming from Peter Mandelson, who read PPE at Oxford, though comprehensible enough among students first encountering a much more independent working style than they had while being prepared for the endless hoop-jumping at school.
After this introduction, we spin off in several directions, first encountering a 160-page unpublished memoir Patty has written, in the third person, at the behest of her therapist.
It's based on the memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, a midwife at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, who wrote of the shock of being a sheltered young woman first encountering the East End of the 50s.
