Sentence examples for sounded unwilling from inspiring English sources

Jamie Thomson of The Guardian described the album as "wholly disappointing," and thought the band sounded "unwilling to ditch the nu-metal tendencies that have made much of their recent output so resistible".

On radio, however, the News Corp CEO sounded far from doddery: on the contrary, he seemed decisive, impatient, unwilling to join in with James's talk-everything-out stalling tactics and clearly unused to answering – rather than asking – questions.

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican whip, sounded the same theme in a quick message on Twitter: "I'm unwilling to accept @BarackObama's new normal of 8% unemployment".

"Cultural literacy" would have been a good candidate for inclusion in the dictionary, but will not be found there, presumably because the three authors were unwilling to sound self-congratulatory.

LONDON — The buzzer sounded the end of the fairy tale, and the Nigerian team limped off the court in slow motion, unwilling, unable to let go.

The clandestine encounter, as Khaksar described it, sounded like an episode in a cheap spy novel, but McIllwain recently confirmed the details of the meeting, and Khaksar still has his now tattered half of the five-rupee note, along with a letter from McIllwain saying that the Americans were unwilling to do as he asked.

Supporters of the Confederate symbol on the flag, which the state flies even though it is not the official one, sounded confident that in the privacy of polling booths, voters would keep the old flag, an action that even a majority of like-minded legislators was unwilling to take.

Perry somehow sounds both careful and craven, unwilling to venture much yet demanding a lot.

Paterson sounds seductive, even when Norris seems unwilling to allow him to be so on stage.

But he detours off memory lane, unwilling to let the retro sounds ease into nostalgia.

"What's that?" Mickey asked — the sound small, almost unwilling — from where he stood at the door.