Sentence examples for was innocuous at first from inspiring English sources

It was innocuous at first, then searing.

Sadist Faction*'s coffee table is innocuous at first glance, but it's actually one of the most provocative pieces of home furnishing you're likely to ever see.

Sadist Faction's coffee table is innocuous at first glance, but it's actually one of the most provocative pieces of home furnishing you're likely to ever see.* That's because, unlike the generic stuff found in your average furniture outlet, this coffee table is also great for flogging, spanking, and general bondage fun.

The Santa figurine, whose title is "Santa with Tree and Bell," is innocuous enough at first glance.

In terms of this proposition, relaxing Assumption 2 (equal shares among equal contracts) is innocuous for the first equilibrium but not for the second.

The first call from the Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. came at 3 30 p.m. Tuesday, and the message was innocuous, to avoid setting off alarms.

Initially the message was innocuous.

"It was innocuous," he said.

I preferred to — it was innocuous enough.

At first it is innocuous.

"At first, they were innocuous," noted Post Staff Reporter Alec MacGillis.