Sentence examples for sounded comforting from inspiring English sources
"A lot of theories that have sounded comforting to us in the past will not bear out," she predicted.
She sounded comforting, understanding, like a good shrink who reminds herself to be patient in the face of ignorance.
All the credit card companies have taken out the really important bits from the small print and put them in big letters in the summary box". This sounded comforting.
That chug of renewal, of man pushing back on what nature had done, came to sound comforting as well.
Used in adverts, the term 'secured' can sound comforting, yet the comfort isn't for the borrower.
I think people mean this to sound comforting: "He looks just like a normal kid!" But I already know that.
While that may sound comforting, it doesn't reflect crucial changes in the lives of the elderly.
Hence, while a manifesto pledge ruling out profit-making schools may sound comforting, it forgets that profit-making is already permitted, albeit in a round-about way.
If that sounds comforting, bear in mind that the subtitle of his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, is "the final warning" – and when it comes to the kind of climate change-related schemes that dominate the headlines, he tends to sound withering, to say the least.
A few of the essays are too glib; it may sound comforting to say that "the only thing we need to worry about is worry itself" (as several contributors suggested), but anybody who has lived through Chernobyl or Fukushima knows otherwise.
