Sentence examples for complex at first from inspiring English sources

The effect was complex: at first the crowd seemed stunned by what they had just seen.

The way they function seems complex at first, but once grasped it is extraordinarily simple.

That's just one everyday example of the average person's capacity to learn something that appears complex at first.

" 'Kitchen' is a fascinating play that may appear complex at first," said Larisa Isayeva, the founder and general manager of the MAX Actors Agency, which represents performers.

Tasks that seem impossibly complex at first, like learning how to play the guitar, speak a foreign language or operate a new DVD player, become second nature after we perform those actions many times (well, maybe not the DVD player).

The above gradients seem quite complex at first glance.

Thus, the low divergence within the D. simulans complex at fourth chromosome loci could simply reflect stochastic variance in the ancestral population; it could be coincidental that ase, located at the tip of the X chromosome, also shows low divergence within the complex.

The observation of an Hsp902Hsp702HopGR complex was at first surprising given early reports that only one Hsp70 is incorporated into the Hsp90/Hop complex (Dittmar et al., 1997, Pratt and Dittmar, 1998).

The patterns they produced were complex and, at first, impossible to interpret.

In some paintings very little seems to happen - a colour is bisected by a vertical zip, a slim band runs parallel to the painting's margin - but the placement and characteristics of these interventions are always more crucial and complex than at first appears.

At θ of 0.8, the UV vis absorbance of complex solution at first day was obviously higher than that at seventh day, while at θ of 0.2, two absorbance curves at these two time points were almost superimposed, indicating that small complex particles were more stable than large ones because of electrostatic repulsion.