Sentence examples for something to begin with from inspiring English sources

It is axiomatic, however, that if you don't love something to begin with, you are not going to work to the degree it takes to excel, unless you are on a chain gang.

So if you could choreograph a meal, we'd have something to begin with that lifts everyone into a state of lively conviviality: maybe a foam, definitely something light and spicy.

As with the gorilla, if we are busy doing something else, we will remain largely unaware of the details and may even fail to realise we've seen something to begin with.

And "more" is of course relative to how much respect one had for something to begin with.

"It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on".

I wanted something better to begin with.

That's a deal killer when you're talking about something overpriced to begin with.

But then, as the movie races through its final tricks and plot reversals, it falls away from us, losing our interest, and by the end we may wonder why anyone bothered to remake something so slight to begin with.

However, when I encounter a child who has dug in her heels about something, I prefer to begin with the assumption that in some way, however strange, her behavior makes its own kind of sense.

Nostalgia, to me, is not the emotion that follows a longing for something you lost, or for something you never had to begin with, or that never really existed at all.

Properly considered, there's something mysterious about love to begin with.