Sentence examples for I initially take from inspiring English sources

I emerge from the screening and wander the aisles, past the lurid posters for Beat Down and Bashment, Marco Macaco: Let's Go Bananas and The Wee Man, which I initially take to be a comedy about incontinence before twigging that it's actually a Scottish drama with John Hannah in the title role.

What I initially took to be false fronts of decoy cabinets turned out to be locked doors; Mr. Elias's tags authorize only selective access.

Subsequent reads made me question just what it was I found so unappealing, until I came to realise I had been so thrown by Lassies that what I initially took for hatred was actually the very opposite.

Propped up on an easel by the reception desk was what I initially took to be a Mayan calendar but, on closer inspection, turned out also to be a doughnut.

Junk food tradition is embraced, in the form of fish and chips, a burger, a banana split, and even 'hot dog, popcorn and ice-cream soda' which I initially took to be some clever gastronomic jeu d'esprit, but which is actually just what it says it is.

I initially took cannabis because I wanted to drink less, and wanted another recreational option.

And so I didn't initially take that throwaway comment that seriously.

Every time I start reading something of hers, I am initially taken aback by the flatness of her characters' emotional landscape and her transparently convoluted plots.

I was initially taken aback by their reactions, even though some adults I know had told me that they were having a hard time dealing with the election.

"I was initially taken aside by a couple of people and bought coffee to have a friendly chat and basically told everything I've heard is a lie, and it's not true, and he's a lovely man and you just don't know him, you shouldn't listen to the lies".

They did not, initially, take their opportunities.