Sentence examples for stage at first from inspiring English sources

The sex, when it hits the stage, at first in a rampant duet between Rojo and Ed Watson's stormingly virile Edward Gordon Craig, and later Gary Avis's dashing Paris Singer (the sewing-machine tycoon) is, if not decorous, inventive.

At 48, he finds that term "a bit superficial", but he looks startling: he has turned up to our interview as if he is about to take to the stage – at first I think his shirt is unbuttoned nearly to the navel.

At the center of the stage, at first, were four wire towers from which microphones were suspended over speakers -- the setup for "Pendulum Music," a 1968 Steve Reich rarity based on the feedback created as the microphones swing over the speakers.

WI: Different skills are needed at each stage: at first you need to be creative and understand social problems in unique ways but then as the business evolves you should have good project management skills in applying resources and delivering services.

When Mr. Romney took the stage, at first accompanied by his wife, Ann, and his oldest son, Tagg, Mrs. Romney made a point of giving shout-outs to a long list of Michigan surrogates — including Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, Donald Trump and Kid Rock, who played a mini-show (a lone number: the Romney campaign's theme song, "Born Free") Monday night.

A tale spanning love and war but with not much fresh to say about either, "Birdsong" on stage at first resembles an unwitting parody of "Aspects of Love," another literature-inspired stage adaptation of an amorous English soldier on the qui vive in France.

Dupont also entered the top ten after this stage, at tenth place.

The numerical procedure consists of two stages: At first, an estimation of the initial blank shape is given using the one step inverse approach (IA).

The deposition was performed with ultralow deposition rate (near 10−3 nm/s) in two stages: at first, ZnO underlayer was grown on SrTiO3 (001) substrate at 400 °C, and then secondary LBMO overlayer was deposited on the ZnO underlayer at 600 °C.

This approximately corresponded to developmental stages as follows: first instar larval stage at 1DAEI, second instar larval stage at 3DAEI, third instar larval stage at 5DAEI, late third instar larval stage to prepupal stages at 7DAEI, and pupal stage at 9DAEI.

I was wary about talking about him on stage myself, at first.