Sentence examples for at first reading from inspiring English sources

It can flay you at first reading.

Persuasion at first reading was the worst of all.

Yet at first reading it's hard to work out why.

"Of Modern Poetry," by Wallace Stevens is undeniably dense and difficult at first reading.

In the last five-year term 69.5% of the parliament's business were concluded at first reading.

This makes the book one to linger over, as well as one to enjoy at first reading".

Find the best professors on campus and take their classes, even if they don't seem interesting at first read.

At first read, it seems to me that the contents can be split pretty cleanly in two: half is genuinely good, if slightly obvious advice.

At first read, the control the gods exert over characters' destinies makes it feel like there's next to nothing at stake.

With Your Wings at first reads like a standard narrative of a veteran's return, a plot used by everyone from Homer to Ernest Hemingway.

A lot of inconvenient people are got rid of in these stories, one way or another, and they are more disquieting than they seem at first read.