Sentences with phrase «to seem at first glance»

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.

His work seems at first glance to be literary in content and descriptive.

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.

If it doesn't seem at first glance to improve significantly on the company's previously - definitive DVD release, blame some stubbornly soft anamorphic cinematography — and know that a side - by - side comparison shows enough of a boost in clarity to almost justify a re-purchase by itself.

Wouldn't a proper scientific observation start from that point, as a matter to criticize Mike's work, rather than nit picking details which seem at first glance totally irrelevant to the main issue, the recent warming curve with reconstructions corresponds exactly to what is happening.

It does seem at first glance that a warm troposphere would warm the stratosphere, but the explanation that more of the earth - sourced infrared radiation is absorbed lower in the the troposphere by higher levels of CO2 makes sense if one thinks about the thermodynamic losses involved in the CO2 re-radiation processes; some of the earth - sourced infrared is transformed into kinetic energy and only a fraction is reradiated as more infrared radiation (if I'm understanding correctly).

Restaurant labor seems at first glance to be a variable cost, or one that fluctuates in direct relationship to business volume.

While it is easy to understand the Frustration tantrum, the Want My Own Way tantrum can seem at first glance merely selfish and not deserving of our sympathy.

The sex life of a seaweed seems at first glance haphazard — sperm and eggs spill into the water, to either fuse or die.

Caffeine seems at first glance like a pretty average molecule — lots of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen.

That melancholic undercurrent of an era nearly bygone is what holds Slow West together in spite of seeming at first glance a shaggy assembly of matter - of - fact executions and stuff - of - legend yarns.

Adapted by Lelio and co-writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz from a novel by Naomi Alderman, Disobedience seems at first glance to share a basic premise with A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's Oscar - winning drama about a trans woman trying to grieve her boyfriend's death in a narrow - minded world.

While the film seems at first glance as if it is going to go down familiar tubes of crass and crappy comedies, there's a core intelligence to its characterizations and situations that allows the story to stay afloat during the sloppier passages, and unlike may other dumb sport comedies, the action on the ice is quite well shot and edited.

In other words, an inexpensive program that affects every student nationwide can, over the long run, have a very large impact, even if its average effect seems at first glance to be quite small.

Many seem at first glance slightly unnerving: awkward, brusque or even unfinished.

Kline's simplified statements of aggressive, insect - like forms in his first exhibition and his even more drastic black grids in subsequent shows seemed at first glance raw, powerfully magnified enlargements of a section of the calligraphy of Bradley Walker Tomlin.

«Songs for Sabotage» is a primer on how to explore political disruption in a genuinely repressive environment, without seeming at first glance to challenge the status quo.

The summer of 1927 in the United States seems at first glance an odd subject for a book.

Just because a term seems at first glance to be in need of improvement doesn't mean you should redline it.

These topics seem at first glance to be irrelevant to much of the country, but if you look at recent changes to the real estate marketplaces in Florida and New Orleans, the implication of insurance industry moves to protect themselves from mega payouts has had a deep impact on values.

While the concerns Skelly expresses on behalf of NFN and its FSBO members seem at first glance to support CREA in its stance countering the allegations of the commissioner, NFN has expressly asked that «CREA not be permitted to seek documentary or oral discovery of the NFN.»

I was recently asked what seemed at first glance to be a rhetorical question: «How long does menopause last?»

It wouldn't seem at first glance that we'd absorb as much from a bath or shower as we would from drinking water, but since chlorine vaporizes more quickly than water and can be inhaled and absorbed through the skin, we can actually absorb much more chlorine from showering than from drinking water!

Hockey's Stanley cup play - offs, now in final swing, seem at first glance like the most arrant sort of nonsense.

A 10 % drop in the DOW would be 2,616 points and 282 points in the S&P from the highs which seems at first glance to be a huge amount.

Yes, it's tougher than it seems at first glance.

«I want to reassure people that it's not as complex as it may seem at first glance and that Credit Karma Tax has a number of resources about how to approach bitcoin and taxes.»

Independent security researcher Harri Hursti said past attempts at tokenization have encountered exceptions that make the idea of disposable, proxy account numbers much more complex than it may seem at first glance.

With only $ 190 million in assets, the Potomac Valley Bank might seem at first glance to offer growth - oriented business customers only limited options, besides those chats over lunch.

What seems at first glance to be a crisis in Egypt actually started in Tunisia in mid-December, when a 26 year old fruit - seller, whose scale had been confiscated by a government official, publicly set himself on fire, sparking anti-government protests that resulted in the ouster of Tunisia's autocratic president.

The demands a small church places on its membership are high indeed, and may seem at first glance to have little to do with Christian love and discipline.

Decorously contained on a half - page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it seems at first glance to be the sort of poem a pious 17th - century country parson might be expected to write — a courteous reiteration of theological truths upon which the Sunday faithful may happily agree.

This statement gives us a full and clear picture of early Christian mission preaching, or so it seems at first glance.

It would seem at first glance that homileticians and practitioners of performance studies are developing a common language and method.

What might seem at first glance to be a great aid in the search may not, in fact, prove to be much help.

That's the way it seems at first glance.

Syncretism, however, is a temptation, because it seems at first glance not to take anything away from Christianity, but only «to add a wider dimension to the faith of the Church.»

So as long as you aren't on a low carb diet, though this seems at first glance that this is an egg replacer that is devoid of nutrition, that might not entirely be the case.

In fact, the entire issue of cosmetics packaging is more complicated than it might seem at first glance.

It would seem at first glance that al - la - carte items or alternative offerings for paid meals could be used to offset the cost of the free / reduced program, if done carefully.

Feeding our children well may seem at first glance like a softball issue for the first lady, but Mrs. Obama is actually in the opening innings of what looks like a long and complicated fight.

This is trickier than it might seem at first glance.

Also, they're not as expensive as they seem at first glance.