Sentence examples for understood at first from inspiring English sources

Meaning it can't really be understood at first.

What no one understood at first was how much his excesses would appeal to voters – not all of them poor white people whose jobs, prospects and traditions have been attacked or destroyed – who feel marginalised or threatened.

Meanwhile, over at PSFK.com ("Your go-to source for new ideas"), we're treated to an explanation of how to communicate with Millennials: "Experiences designed for them should be intuitive and easily understood at first exposure (and sight).

The closeness of a possibility as it figures in (ii) is to be understood, at first pass, in terms of what we can reasonably rely on: a possibility is a distant one just in case we can reasonably rely on it not obtaining; otherwise it is a close one (Peacocke 1999, 310).

These animations are carefully designed to be understood at first glance".

"They should not be obscured or mixed, yet sufficiently intricate not to be understood at first glance".

I didn't understand at first.

I didn't understand at first why it was happening and who was behind it.

I didn't understand at first and thought she'd been taken to hospital.

I did see the footballers tube map; what I didn't understand at first was why they'd done it.

Though I liked Lapka, I didn't understand at first why he was coming with us that morning.