Sentence examples for Upon second reading from inspiring English sources

Likewise, Mr. Comte-Sponville's pithy sentences sometimes wilt upon second reading or turn silly, as when he writes of losing his adolescent faith: "Such freedom!

She still retains that belief today but no longer recalls the evidence she had upon first reading the story.

A curious statement upon first read, but my desert rambles have confirmed that nothing illuminates irrational fear more brilliantly than sun bouncing off slickrock.

The identification of the Nitrosoarchaeum tubulins by Yutin and Koonin is potentially interesting, and upon first read I tended to agree with their conclusion that the results are compatible with the origin of eukaryotic tubulins from Nitrosoarchaeum tubulins.

Upon first reading, it's easy to see Bateman as exactly this: a psychopath beneath this veneer of a businessman.

Upon first reading them, they seemed unrelated, but I now believe there is a connection that explains the attention they're getting.

By the time she received that ultimatum, though, the grief she felt upon first reading the email had hardened.

When I was a teacher, I taught this book and I'll never forget the way my students reacted to it upon first reading.

The works of Auslander, Roth, and Ozick are obviously rooted in the disbelief that we all felt upon first reading the sentence, "Anne's diary ends here".

Maybe you're like me: my reluctance to part with books, even those I despised upon first reading, is strong enough to land me on one of those hoarding television shows.

She recalls her surprise upon first reading of the Wellbeing Index's reflection of this widespread sense of civic disengagement – especially among the young and more recent arrivals to the city – so starkly did it contrast with her own personal experience of Santa Monica as place of classically tight-knit small-town social fabric.