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Do I sound idiotic?
I sound idiotic".
"Not to sound idiotic or pretentious, but I never start these things to be controversial," Baz Luhrmann said recently in his Australian drawl.
The metrical template - ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum - would lead you to expect an emphasis on the word "to": The vapours weep their burthen to the ground But that would sound idiotic.
That might sound idiotic, but I cannot help it".
In the film, where he entrances Meg from Baltimore with his longing for his dead wife, Tom would sound idiotic instead of the poetic, hopelessly romantic, grieving widower he was.
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It sounds idiotic.
It sounded idiotic and incoherent.
If there were no money involved (which sounds idiotic and is), Harrison never would have turned pro after winning his Olympic gold medal, because his southpaw style and in-built caution are much better suited to the amateur game.
It might be a mistake to reveal that, because it sounds idiotic, but that's where that particular song came from.
Although age has subdued them, even given them a certain grace, when they start jabbering about sex, they sound as idiotic as ever.
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