Sentence examples similar to first hand picture from inspiring English sources

This is the first time in 30 years that the world has got a first-hand picture of what is happening in most of the country.

I'm tempted to jump on that last word, because realistic is too often a second-hand picture of reality.

But its magic works best when it is experienced at first hand; when the picture is allowed the space to move and breathe and reveal its treasures at leisure.

At the conference, we will see first hand footage of drone victims and pictures of them in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia". A recent poll by ABC News/Washington Post found that 83% of Americans approve of Obama's use of drones to kill terrorist suspects abroad.

"The picture that has been painted of Rajat in the press and blogosphere contradicts what we know of Rajat first hand," reads the site's home page.

I witnessed it first hand.

I learn that first hand.

Ruffin won the first hand.

He knows this first hand.

I know from first hand.

Know your betrayer first hand.