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first blush

n. at the first glimpse or impression; "at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails"

Usage examples of "first blush".

Some of them, indeed, on the very first blush, as soon as they are spoken, exhibit Christ and the Church, although some things in them that are less intelligible remain to be expounded at leisure.

She should have checked out all her neighbors, but at first blush this had seemed like a nice, safe area for a single woman to live, and she had been thrilled at finding a good, solid house at such a low price.

Beneath the flickering radiance of the torchlight, their hair gleamed and their skin glowed with the dewy vigor common only to those in the first blush of youth.

Waking his companions at the first blush of dawn, Alain heard a horn call, low and trembling.

I am not a comely lass, and no longer in the first blush of youth, either.

Robin claims he is English, but no prosaic Englishman could have written such a valentine, not even in the first blush of love!

As regarded Judge Pyncheon, it seemed probable, at first blush, that the mode of his final departure might give him a larger and longer posthumous vogue than ordinarily attends the memory of a distinguished man.

Believe me, my dear, men may make up to you, while you keep your looks, but even a tradesman thinks twice before he offers for a penniless woman no longer in the first blush of youth.

She had met Frederica already, and was agreeably surprised, I fancy, to discover that she is neither in the first blush of youth, nor a beauty, but a passably goodlooking young woman, with a great deal of commonsense, and a somewhat masterful disposition.

Despite the incessant spring rains, the local farmers had managed to get their fields plowed, and the first blush of green crops showed vividly against the furrows' rich, black topsoil.

If I used Barrymore, like you were asking about, I'd maybe use First Blush or Spring Rose.