at first

"One thing I always admired about him – though did not always agree with at first – was that he didn't run away from difficult things," said Archbishop Gallagher.

������ looks at first glance to be your standard postwar love triangle — made up of oil-and-water brothers and a cagey housewife — reveals itself to be more like a multi-faceted crystal of lust and longing in the handsomely realized romantic melodrama “On Swift Horses.”

Softly at first then louder, as if to encourage those who joined in timidly, the nuns broke into Ave Maria.

At first, I didn’t know a lot about the new man in my life, but what I knew ignited me.

At first glance, it’s not much to look at.