at the first blush

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To look at the first blush of reconstruction down here in the 1990s is to grow nostalgic for a New York that moved at a different tempo.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

But Brussels schools did not seem at the first blush to be very satisfactory. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

It’s an absolute fact that just at the first blush I didn’t even recognise her.”

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Now, at the first blush, one would not think of any common ground of meeting for our Aunt Anniky and the Empress Josephine.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate

Such pretensions may at the first blush seem exaggerated; they were justified in this instance, the amateurs being acknowledged to be the equals of the professionals by every unbiassed critic.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.