Marshall lit a cigarette, leaned back, and began what at first struck me as a digression.
The cover, with its play on an American Express card, at first struck me as risky: will the average bookstore browser know whether this is deadpan or serious, playful or sociological?
She told me that, alas, she thought of me not as a boyfriend but as a very dear friend — which, at first, struck me as more a promotion than a rejection.
She told me that, alas, she thought of me not as a boyfriend but as a very dear friend which, at first, struck me as more a promotion than a rejection.
But when he moved he seemed older; his gestures and his gait, which at first struck me as mincing, I saw were not quite that but curiously careful — stiff and a bit jerky.
This at first struck me as an "oh no society is over we're so lazy" moment, but in different contexts I can see it genuinely helping new readers as they try to put together the building blocks of literacy.
It was not struck until 1795, as the Mint at first struck copper and silver coins.
Months before I recorded and wrote about Obama's comments at the San Francisco fundraiser, I had observed, figured out and begun to subscribe to the code, which had at first struck me as damned odd.
What it sees can at first strike an outsider as oddly romantic.
Advisedly or inadvertently, the major new productions at important international opera houses are conceived less as investments than as events, not for staying power but for shock value at first strike.
Seeming and being similar might at first strike one as closely related, but of course they are very different.
