There are plenty of questions that are bad at first glance — as in "are you Norman Huckelby?" Whether these questions remain bad, however, often depends on the listener.
To be sure, you will come across some questions that are beyond repair, but many that seem bad at first glance are actually good questions, or at least innocent ones that are dressed in awkward clothing.
Its turnover of 41 billion rand and profit of 5 billion rand for last year are not too bad at first glance, though the monopoly could expect to rake in even more.
But for every quality site there are countless spammy sites, and it can be hard to tell the good ones from the bad at first glance – not to mention the fact that many fledging musicians don't know these sites exist in the first place.
This list probably doesn't look so bad at first glance.
As the crowd of eighty thousand, seated on folding chairs, awaited his sermon (on the subject of making bad choices), Graham glanced across the platform and acknowledged his special guests, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
"I didn't do too bad," he said, his glance slipping away from his mother, toward the others.
This is no bad thing: the sidelong glance is often our best approach to historical happenings, and, in this case, we already have a report from center stage — "Woodstock," the 1970 documentary directed by Michael Wadleigh and heroically edited by, among others, the young Martin Scorsese.
At first glance, not bad.
Not a bad idea at first glance.
It doesn't seem like a bad deal at first glance, though iOS users actually pay less — they can purchase a month of service for $.99 and a whole year for $9.99.
