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Example sentences for "first hearing"

  • Enthusiasm could scarcely have been looked for on a first hearing of so original a work.

  • A frequent experience in regard to Parry's music is that, whereas a first hearing impresses in virtue of massiveness and energy or of striking and unconventional dramatic touches, second and subsequent hearings are discouraging.

  • Though Buelow was at the conductor's desk, it is unquestionable that the labour of Hercules, which was necessary to bring the work to a first hearing, was performed in the main by Richter.

  • The Argument of assenting on first hearing, is upon a false supposition of no precedent teaching.

  • He aims to be understood upon a first hearing.

  • At a first hearing of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," it seemed as though the very dayspring had descended into the orchestra to make that famous, brassy opening passage.

  • There are few who, at a first hearing of a Strauss poem, do not feel as though some wild and troubling and panic presence had leaned over the concert hall and bedeviled the orchestra.

  • At a first hearing of this really very sincere and for moments entrancing work one hopes for the best at the end of the first dozen bars; but better is not to be.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first captain; first coming; first cost; first cousins; first expedition; first given; first governor; first great; first half; first journey; first lecture; first lesson; first lieutenant; first line; first marriage; first mate; first performed; first prince; first saw; first the; first violin; first went; first wife; first words; lieutenant general; scientific evidence