Sentence examples for context sound from inspiring English sources

Dr. Kershaw makes a set of policy recommendations — a New Deal for Families, he calls them — which, read in an American political context, sound laughably utopian.

Adults may find the hybrid locutions of Henry P. Baloney a tad confusing at first -- this reader certainly did -- but for children learning to read, they offer a vital discovery: words do not have to be learned letter by letter, but can be deduced from context, sound and shape.

As with the magnificent Crusaders Kings 2, RimWorld is full of situations that, out of context, sound absolutely monstrous.

In this context, sound wildlife disease management requires careful attention to applied evolutionary ecology and to ethical conservation because of the implications for conservation and public health.

To a modern ear, the word "sin" in this context sounds almost Chaucerian.

The original, which is great in its own context, sounds clumsy in comparison.

One detail from Ramin Setoodeh and Elizabeth Wagmeister's reporting in Variety mentions a contraption, apparently common in the offices of executives of his stature, that in this context sounds like something used by a villain from a Bond film.

Playing with appropriately thin vibrato and soft-spoken delicacy, it captured the stunning mix of restless counterpoint, ravishing modal harmonies and expressive austerity in the music, which, in this context, sounded almost modern.

One extraordinary segment, a homage to Gyorgy Ligeti, began with the percussionists playing Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" (yes, a piece written for two hand-clappers), which led without break into Mr. Aimard's performance of Ligeti's etude "Fem," which in this context sounded like a spinoff of Reich.

Dr. George D. Lundberg, Dr. DeAngelis's predecessor, who was dismissed as editor of the journal, said in an interview that "the use of the word 'must' in this context sounds far more proscriptive than the practice we maintained at JAMA in the 1990's".

Moreover, Buller's description of a "psychological mechanism" in this context sounds rather like a behavioral disposition (2005, 52 53).