Sentence examples for sounding best from inspiring English sources

Olga Borodina was at her most refined and elegant as Marguerite, sounding best in her rich middle and lower registers.

While Kronos helps introduce listeners to its discoveries, its transcriptions domesticate the music, sounding best when the sources are least familiar.

Mr. John and his cohorts kept getting lighter and leaner, sounding best during the last few songs before the encore: "The Bitch Is Back," "Crocodile Rock" and "Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)," each more emphatic than the last.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos had the New York Philharmonic sounding its best on Saturday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, with impeccable ensemble and raw power among the performances' most striking attributes.

Allowances should perhaps be made for this limited but not insubstantial rehearsal time and for Mr. Nelsons's unfamiliarity with the orchestra, but for the most part, he did not have it sounding its best.

You lumped together all local magazines -- from start-up town publications all the way to, well, Westchester Magazine, by far the biggest and, at the risk of sounding immodest, best magazine serving our region.

Sadly for Bernard, GCap Media has not been his finest hour, made even more ironic because Capital, the station for which he attracted the most criticism, is now sounding the best in at least five years.

While the orchestra is sounding its best in newer music, Mr. Morlot isn't a firebrand, and he spoke as enthusiastically — well, almost — about a program of Rossini, Schumann and Brahms as he did about introducing Messiaen to the orchestra for the first time.

And when that home is the UK, talking about "How we do things in England" puts you at risk of sounding at best like a snob, and at worst like Marlow, the imperialist-leaning narrator in Heart of Darkness.

You want to have your instrument sounding its best.

All these things constrict your throat and keep you from sounding your best.