Sentence examples for simple at first sight from inspiring English sources

In a statement, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN, and Stephen Myers, director of accelerators and technology at the laboratory, said stochastic cooling was typical of Mr. van der Meer's inventions: "deceptively simple at first sight, but to anyone who truly understands accelerators it was nothing less than a stroke of genius".

His technique, called stochastic cooling, "was typical of a Simon van der Meer invention: deceptively simple at first sight, but to anyone who truly understands accelerators it was nothing less than a stroke of genius," Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of CERN, and Stephen Myers, director of accelerators and technology, said in a statement.

AT FIRST sight, not much has changed.

AT FIRST sight it seems utterly confusing.

8 7 14 AT FIRST SIGHT, by Nicholas Sparks.

2 2 7 AT FIRST SIGHT, by Nicholas Sparks.

These problems may appear to be simple mathematically at first; sight, they are, in fact, very challenging and complicated.

Brilliant primary colours, simple geometrical shapes – at first sight it looks like a textbook of suprematism, the movement that emerged from the intellectual ferment of pre-revolutionary Russia to express the supremacy of pure, artistic feeling above the mere depiction of objects.

However, this might not be as simple as it appears at first sight.

Their hymnbook rhythms and Blakean dodges are appropriate to their sentiments, which aren't as simple as they might seem at first sight: "But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone.

Although they can seem, at first sight, simple generalizations of the necessary conditions that distances between point and subsets must satisfy, these spaces have turned out to have such good properties that they solved the problem of how to treat, in a unified way, such different notions as metrics, topologies, and uniformities, especially from the categorical view-point (see [37, 38]).