Sentence examples for at first doubtful from inspiring English sources

Houseman said that the natives around there were at first doubtful about the Festival, but now they like it; they use the Theatre as a civic center when the Festival doesn't need it.

Kübler-Ross, one of identical triplets whose survival was at first doubtful, knew at a young age that she wanted to be a doctor and defied her father's plans for her to be his secretary in the business he managed.

It is the most ambitious thing the Royal Academy has ever staged, the result of five years' planningNon the part of Hugh Casson, its president; the team of experts he took to Tokyo; and the at first doubtful Japanese authoritiesNto overcome the immense conservation problems of bringing these national treasures to Britain.

At first Bruno was doubtful.

At first, she is doubtful in her diary not so much about sex with a married man as about sex itself: "it takes very little even now to disgust me".

Conversely, others that at first blush seemed doubtful found a place on the list.

At first, she was doubtful that it would be possible to see any meaningful connection between stress and telomeres.

Doubtful at first, I soon loved it.

He had never used a Jacobsen soup spoon before, and was doubtful at first.

At first, the organization was doubtful that the students could grasp such a complex topic.

I put the idea to Anne and she was a bit doubtful at first.