We cannot know which among the truths we consider so patently obvious today will one day turn out to be so absolutely, completely mistaken, that we will blush with embarrassment at the thought that we once embraced it.
Let's start with the hardest problems, those challenges that at first blush seem impossible.
While at first blush that was a lackluster offering when initially released, several months later Passbook has become a compelling coupon and ticketing platform.
But I can say that at first blush, it seems AC4 looks like a decent enough seafaring game, with more than enough buckles to swash.
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In each of three important areas, NATO has fashioned positions that, at first blush, seem promising and laudable.
HP's approach certainly has the features on its side, thanks to some smart design work both inside and out and software from Microsoft that appears at first blush to be excellent.
Not a week goes by without seeing some headline about deficits pushing municipalities to desperation or Bill Gates describing state budgets using accounting techniques that would make Enron blush.
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If anyone wonders, for example, whether newspapers are a thing of the past, all you needed to do was to pick up or log on to papers like the Boston Globe. (Applause.) When their communities and the wider world needed them most, they were there making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our comprehension.
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Berent notes that a few of his clients have been so wracked with embarrassment about their tendencies to blush in the office that they had medical procedures to cut out those nerves.
Mr Neill accused Labour councillors of a "spending spree that would make a millionaire blush".
These outfits do very well, for the most part charging interest rates that could make the mob blush.
Yet Fox's sibling cable network, FX, airs shows that would make a longshoreman blush--and the FCC legally can do little about it.
Underlining its commitment to mix and match products and support open environments, IBM has adopted Java with a zeal that would make a missionary blush.
Once in a while you come across a piece of information that is shocking at first blush, and then makes eminent sense as soon as it sinks in.
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That Would Make Ben Bernanke Blush.
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Yet such numbers relied on accounting that would make an Enron executive blush.
"There are real trade-offs involved in a policy that sounds pretty straightforward at first blush, " said Tricia Neuman, a study author.
The candid advice that Quintus gives would make Machiavelli blush, but it rings as true today as it did 2, 000 years ago.
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It'll be love at first blush with a package that includes unlimited activities, unlimited food and drink and unlimited room service at up to 60% off.
At first blush, BLS figures suggest that failure rates are consistent across industries.
At first blush, it seems odd that the bank would be so tight-fisted with such a large amount of money.
At first blush, this seems something that should cause problems for Republicans.
At first blush, it seems incredible that the sort of clarity about the Brotherhood's intentions that the foregoing provide seems to be eluding many in official Washington and the policy elite.
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While India's biggest celebrity actors are treated like royalty by an adoring public, they are also the subject of the kind of media gossip that would make a National Enquirer reporter blush.
And at first blush, these sound like things that many businesses would want.
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Even now, the unabashed elite-worshipping that IIT graduates command in India would make Zeus blush.
At first blush, it seems kind of odd that Aramco would even bother with expanding Shaybah right now.
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On first blush, the phone looks so ordinary that it's impossible to tell there's a radiation meter within.
Ms Dames said that donations were already coming in which would help Vanilla Blush get its models over to the catwalks of America.
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