Sentence examples for it sounded supportive from inspiring English sources

He got his apology for Australia's performance out of the way in big chunks of honest appraisal – and, intentionally or not, none of it sounded supportive of their biggest disappointment, Mitchell Johnson, whose bowling was as unreliable as a Sydney taxi.

France sounded supportive of a rejection.

However, when asked about Hogan-Howe, the prime minister sounded supportive.

Whenever he said something awful, I mumbled in a way that sounded supportive.

At first, he sounded supportive: "If you ask people in Sariyer" — the municipality that includes Garipçe — "eighty per cent are for the bridge," he said.

At first, he sounded supportive: "If you ask people in Sariyer"—the municipality that includes Garipçe—"eighty per cent are for the bridge," he said.

"In 1993, interest groups sounded supportive and made nice at the outset, but then turned and used all their resources to oppose reform," said Judith Feder, a Clinton administration official who is now a senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.

Clinton also sounded supportive of new Colorado and Washington laws that have legalized recreational marijuana for adults.

When HuffPost asked GOP lawmakers about CSR payments on Tuesday, rank-and-file Republicans sounded supportive of doing something to ensure that premiums were workable.

It was meant to sound supportive – "we don't question him at all, that's why it's not necessary to send a signal [by opening talks]" – but came across as deliberately noncommittal.

Although telling your child that it's okay not to be good at math because you weren't on the surface sounds supportive, it also lowers their expectations for themselves.