first acquaintance

Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.

It was Simon’s first acquaintance with the notebook.

If it’s your first acquaintance with his work, you’re in for a roughly evocative, suspenseful tale in the same compelling vein as the Dardenne brothers’ intimate, propulsive and nonjudgmental character studies of desperation and morality.

A reunion for me; for her, a first acquaintance.

There is undoubtedly a huge age effect here, and as people get older they most likely become more accurate at distinguishing between narcissism and high self-esteem, and are less likely to find narcissistic displays of confidence attractive even at first acquaintance.