Sentence examples for atmosphere at first from inspiring English sources

This atmosphere at first imposed a somber air on the politicking, but by the end, the race became as much of a street fight as any contest New York had seen in a generation.

The novel's atmosphere at first calls to mind Kurosawa's great film "Ikiru," with its portrait of Kanji Watanabe, who has done the same dull office job for thirty years: "Many people knew him, and lived beside him, near him — but few could say they had any sense of what he was really like.

There was something in the wisps of incense lingering in the air from the censer swung not two hours prior that recalled the haunted atmosphere at the first poetry reading I attended, at 15, in a stuffy old library at The Lawrenceville School, fittingly enough by Rachel's mentor, James Merrill, an alumnus of the same.

He described the sights and feeling of re-entering earth's atmosphere at night: "First, there is a pale peachy glow and the deeper you get, the peach color changes to orange and then to white and it looks like a fluorescent light and then you pop into daylight".

When he went to an Independence Day gathering in the settlement of Kedumim, the atmosphere reminded him, at first, of "the good old days of the kibbutzim".

That atmosphere didn't at first spread to the programme, with Derbyshire's first couple of interviews falling flat, the local speakers being too serious and flat-toned.

The atmosphere was good at first but now people are tired and just want to get home.

The game world's fusion of high technology and ethnic, tribal atmospheres proved challenging at first.

Although the more formal social atmosphere was off-putting at first, Paradise Island provided a grown-up, romantic experience that would have been hard to achieve at Club Med Cancún.

"The Naming of the Dead" describes a roiling circus atmosphere that seems benign at first, attracting a tent city of protesters who include Siobhan's parents, but eventually escalates into rioting (and coincides with terrorist bombings in London).

The atmosphere at Canlis is first-tier cosmopolitan: moneyed, confident, well dressed.