Sentence examples for even at first hearing from inspiring English sources
Though not as prolific as he was in his youth, Knussen has provided a model for composers deeply versed in the modernist tradition to write music that is nonetheless coherent and expressive, even at first hearing.
pinker: At first hearing, the ideal of promoting human well-being might sound unexceptionable, even banal or trite.
At first hearing, his friends were sceptical.
It was love at first hearing.
He feels that anyone who is prepared to listen to it two or three times, or can muster concentration intense enough even at a first hearing, will appreciate its point readily.
At the opening of the play, he sits reading and doesn't at first hear his wife's questions or even register her presence; when he's reading, he explains, he goes into a trance.
Even at first glance things looked ugly.
Even the judge at Naz's first hearing can't believe he's Naz's lawyer: "Friend of the family, or right place right time?" The saga of John's eczema continues throughout the eight episode series, to the point where we had to ask: How did a skin condition become a subplot?
The music even more so: it was my first hearing of "Sympathy for the Devil".
It also showcased someone named Brian Baker, whom even Roger Federer said he first heard of last week.
