The phrase "at first described" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that was initially explained or portrayed in a certain way. For example: - "The protagonist in the book was at first described as a brave and fearless warrior, but as the story unfolded, we saw a more vulnerable side to him." - "The painting, at first described as a simple landscape, revealed hidden layers of symbolism upon closer analysis." - "The new policy, at first described as a solution to the problem, ended up causing even more issues."
He at first described the project as "getting a mixed grade," but then shifted his stance.
Her fellow dancer, with her during much of the time the alleged rape occurred, at first described the claim as "a crock".
Headstrong, beautiful Bell is at first described in highly abusive and ungallant terms by the British army types who resent her interference in diplomatic affairs.
The president at first described the death as a suicide, but later suggested he may have been murdered by rogue elements in Argentina's intelligence service to discredit her.
She at first described the talk as "boyish"; when I pressed her for details, she said: "Oh dear, they were telling their dreams and they were so indecent!" Genius, for Picasso, was lecherous adolescence recovered at will.
The fact that the two events were hurriedly combined and the temple visit was not originally scheduled as a fund-raiser may help explain why the vice president at first described it as a "community outreach" luncheon.
Dave -- Mr. Wurster -- seemed fully credible at first, describing the magazine's launch and how it had scored Senator John McCain as its first cover subject.
Edward Bennett, who succeeded Irish surgeon Robert Smith of the Smith fracture eponym as the Professor of Surgery at Trinity College, first described the Bennett fracture as an oblique intra-articular fracture at the base of the first metacarpal separating the volar-ulnar aspect of the metacarpal base from the remaining distal metacarpal shaft (Fig. 7) [30].
In 2006, Xiaowei Zhuang's team at Harvard University first described the superresolution technique known as stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), a single-molecule localization method whose 20-nm lateral (xy) resolution beats the diffraction limit by a full order of magnitude.
A trio of computer scientists led by Alec Radford, then a researcher at Indico Data, first described DCGAN in 2015.
A trio of computer scientists led by Alec Radford, then a researcher at Indico Data, first described DCGAN in 2015.
