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It is more like driving into town and listening to a radio station that at first comes in weakly, with heavy static, and only gradually becomes clear.

While he at first comes across as a conventionally matey, young alpha-male comic, there are darker, more interesting currents flowing under the surface.

It turns out that he has an 11-year-old daughter, who at first comes for a brief visit and then, because of an unspecified crisis in her mother's life, for a longer stay.

The scarf-wrapped Jingu — who browbeats a student ("Your sincerity needs a form") and proclaims unbidden to a cute photographer in a park that he is a filmmaker — at first comes across as comically pompous and a little pathetic.

But if Bobby the bachelor, embodied with riveting understatement by Raúl Esparza, at first comes across as a man of ice, it becomes apparent that he is in a steady state of thaw.

Regardless of its genesis, it's a brilliant fusing together of two distinct voices, Kelis handling the breathy first verse, as layers of her chopped-up vocals form the rhythm track, while Björk at first comes across as restrained, allowing Kelis' ad-libs to soar before unleashing a song-stopping, wordless roar that heralds the song's dramatic final coda.

"Harry" at first came as a relief.

England did OK at first, coming second in the Six Nations.

Linda Emond.' " The job, informal at first, came at a fortunate moment for Ms. Emond.

Quietly at first came a hissing sound, like someone letting out gas from a canister.

What at first came across as a tale of dawning conscience increasingly starts to feel rigged.