The commission's maiden effort, in 2001, was generally regarded as an improvement over previous plans.
Samsung was among the first to sell a smartwatch for consumers, but its maiden effort, the Galaxy Gear, was widely panned by reviewers.
By Roger Angell The New Yorker, January 21 , 1980P. 102 Review of "Windows,O directed by Gordon Willis, the accomplished cinematographer: his maiden effort as a director.
P.P.S. James Fallows expertly diagnoses the problem with Kristol's maiden effort.
The jungle airstrip, for instance, from which Barry must depart with his precious cargo is stomach-heavingly short, and we glimpse the graves of pilots who have come to grief; during Barry's maiden effort to take off, shredding the treetops as he goes, the camera picks out Escobar and his pals, beside the runway, happily gambling on whether their latest recruit will make it or die.
The fashion world will soon scrutinize his maiden effort, and so will many others.
George Meredith, acting as an adviser for Chapman and Hall, told Hardy not to "nail his colours to the mast" quite so irrevocably in his maiden effort.
White, who chronicled his maiden effort at falconry in "The Goshawk," written just before he began work on "The Once and Future King".
Mr. Douglas's talents as a director have clearly improved since his maiden effort, last year's 'Scalawag,' but then the screenplay (by William Roberts and Christopher Knopf) is also much better.
