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The phrase "an initial sense of" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to refer to a first impression of something. For example, "When I first met my neighbor, I had an initial sense of distrust."
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When I was nominated, I had an initial sense of, I can do anything!
But after an initial sense of relief swept markets in Asia and Europe, the fear quickly returned.
Just say "Sancerre" quietly and you'll get an initial sense of the built-in appeal of this white wine from the Loire Valley.
When the French authorities began the registration and resettlement of refugees, those of us involved felt an initial sense of relief.
Glass is the consistent theme — about half of each floor is fully transparent, giving first-time visitors an initial sense of vertigo.
In a culture that promotes Jerry Bruckheimer's "Pearl Harbor" as a big summer entertainment, in a culture besotted with disaster movies, there was an initial sense of déjà vu and disbelief on the part of these spectators -- the impulse to see what was happening as one of those digital special effects from the big screen.
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This involves an initial sensing of the subject, by sight, smell, touch, hearing, etc., the formation and potential long-term consolidation of a memory, and the eventual remembrance of the subject in a subsequent encounter.
Rather than basing our initial sense of an external world on theoretical inferences from effects to causes, he roots it in a felt resistance to the will.
Hammer, a Newsweek correspondent, is scrupulously fair, conveying both his initial sense of horror at his brother's religious makeover — in which Tony, "the most resolute atheist I had known," comes to resemble "a Hasidic Willy Loman" — and his qualified, begrudging comprehension of his brother's motives in seeking out an insulated life of study and prayer.
Even now he remembers that initial sense of wonder when he lead a convoy of divers out to the desert in a green Holden Kingswood during the 70s on an expedition to map previously unknown sites.
Even now he remembers that initial sense of wonder when he led a convoy of divers out to the desert in a green Holden Kingswood during the 70s on an expedition to map previously unknown sites.
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