The birth control position seems at first glance like the first thing they're going to have to change to stop people fleeing the church as they are now. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
His work seems at first glance to be literary in content and descriptive. (flux-boston.com)
It's a timely and essential message, yet last summer, when the book was first published, it had me grinding my teeth in fury — not because I disagreed with its thesis but because I was deep into researching what seemed at first glance to be the same subject. (independent.co.uk)