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.

On first acquaintance Sloane appears a typical indoors type.

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.

Surely the Mary Ann Wilson I have mentioned was inferior to my first acquaintance: she could only tell me amusing stories, and reciprocate any racy and pungent gossip I chose to indulge in; while, if I have spoken truth of Helen, she was qualified to give those who enjoyed the privilege of her converse a taste of far higher things.