Sentence examples for at first well from inspiring English sources

It was literature that gave the young Bergé his lucky break, although this good fortune was at first well disguised.

After leaving Rome he went to Greece, where he was at first well received, but he compromised his popularity by disparaging the public benefactor Herodes Atticus.

"There's a sense in which you think, at first, Well, what does he do?" Alexander Nehamas, the Princeton philosopher, who was an interpreter in "This Progress," told me.

Although Alexander's acts were at first well received, demands for a return to democratic forms intensified by 1932, when a major economic crisis resulting from the worldwide depression added to political dissatisfaction.

But the majority of the public loved the play… And so I thought at first, well, things are going to be tough but perhaps it isn't impossible to overcome…[But] no play, no song, could stop this gruesome trend towards inhumanity".

He's a relentless workman, and if you don't appreciate him at first, well, there will be plenty of other opportunities.

At first, well-connected businessmen like Mr. Khodorkovsky consolidated control of the oil sector, driving out the few foreign companies that had worked with Russian oil before privatization, and revived the industry's anemic production on their own.

At first well-paid critics, chefs and fellow diners didn't know how to respond (see Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi's rant on Twitter), but PRs and publishers were soon handing out meals and deals to anyone with an audience.

"Not yet wholly evil," as Tolkien observed, though disturbingly adept at "corrupting other minds … He made himself a great king in the midst of the earth, and was at first well-seeming and just and his rule was of benefit to all men in their needs of the body; for he made them rich, whoso would serve him.

"He made himself a great king in the midst of the earth," ran the Lord of the Rings author's premonition of the X Factor overlord, "and was at first well-seeming and just and his rule was of benefit to all men in their needs of the body; for he made them rich, whoso would serve him.

Now it is unknown whether the company will try to restart drilling at the first well, move on to the second one or drop the project entirely.