Sentence examples for on first encountering from inspiring English sources

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.

On first encountering Manon his reaction is an introspective adagio, much of it facing away from her. Behold the tautness of my thighs, he seems to be saying.

On first encountering Mary Portas, retail expert and the face of a new charity shop revolution, the nose also twitches: she smells divine.

"You can have two works that have similar impact on first encounter, but only one of them can contain sustained scrutiny".

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.

The book's full of this sort of curio: interesting on first encounter; illuminating on investigation.