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Similarly, the Times editorial on the Nichols decision ably frames the puzzle: "At first blush it seems contradictory to find that Mr. Nichols was guilty of conspiring in the bombing, a crime that seems to have required premeditation, but then not to find him guilty of first-degree, or premeditated, murder.
What is the evidence for such deep originality in the Codex Leicester ? The manuscript itself, whose pages are dimly illumined in a series of glass cases at the museum, is not, at first blush, a fetching object.
You seemed, at first blush, to be above all the crap/sensationalist headlines the big papers use to sell their stuff.
At first blush, it appeared that he was doing that thing that makes him so rare and appealing as a politician--telling a powerful constituency within his party to get stuffed.
Without a blush I eyed ground-hugging plants and reeled off their names: Hex, Ponder, Explicit, and Envy.