Sentence examples for considered first of all from inspiring English sources

In recent years she's seemed to want to be considered first of all a composer.

A dreary contemporary philistinism, wanting to reduce the works to the life, insists that Britten has to be considered first of all as a lover and idealiser of young boys and only subsequently as a major artist.

"Answers to the questions about the value of existence…may always be considered first of all as the symptoms of certain bodies" (GS P 2).

Let's consider, first of all, a system, which is the identity system.

Consider, first of all, that the musical's score is by Boy George, who found fame as the geisha-faced lead singer of Culture Club two decades ago.

Consider first of all that we are talking about a trial held in open court and subject to intense press coverage.

And since we want to consider, first of all, a complex exponential carrier, we'll consider the case of c of n equal to e to the j omega sub cn.

Consider first of all the central problem that the book identifies: the idea that the public sector takes most of the risks in the modern innovation process, but gets little of the reward.

This year's report includes a graph, below, of grain prices that is interesting for a couple of reasons: [ GRAPH: "World Wheat and Rice Prices, 1950-89 ] Consider, first of all, how it compares with Brown's predictions of a decade ago.

Consider, first of all, the attempted attack, allegedly by a Somali man, on Kurt Westergaard, 74, a Danish cartoonist reviled in many parts of the Islamic world for depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist with a fused bomb in his turban.

Consider, first of all, some of the main modern approaches to the Daodejing (cf. Hardy 1998).