"on first encounter" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are describing your first meeting or experience with something or someone. For example: "On first encounter, the new city seemed intimidating, but I quickly grew to love it."
"You can have two works that have similar impact on first encounter, but only one of them can contain sustained scrutiny".
"You can have two works that have similar impact on first encounter, but only one of them can contain sustained scrutiny". Cole also discusses how listening to music changes a person's experience of a city, his recent trip to the Deep South to explore civil-rights history, and why he finds Switzerland to be an "endlessly fascinating" country.
The survey of the maverick artist Tom Friedman, now at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in SoHo, is not on first encounter a very pretty sight, or a very cohesive one either.
I've been lucky to make the trip five times now, and on first encounter the landscape still looks and feels much like the one that Scott and his men spent their last days on.
On first encounter it is not a pretty sight.
"Our union, immediate on first encounter, was close.... Possibly because we were both freaks".
Yet one may have doubts on first encountering Bedouins wearing black robes and herding black goats.
On first encountering a Shrigley drawing, one is of course immediately aware that we are in a realm of artistic fluidity.
On first encountering the captive Dionysos, he dwells on his white skin "soft to the touch".
On first encountering the show, it is possible to maintain this attitude.
It's innate if it's present and functional on first encounters with the thing that it's about.
