Sentence examples for sounds not only from inspiring English sources

Fanny Kemble comes off well in James's diary; she sounds not only virtuous but also all-knowing, dispensing adjectives with a nineteenth-century omniscience.

This approach works better than it sounds, not only because it allows Mr Lethem to dote on each character, but also because it handily builds momentum in the absence of a conventional plot.But the real reason to read this book is to relish Mr Lethem's gift for language.

Officer Darren Wilson's account of the shooting of Michael Brown sounds not only like a Western film (an unbelievable one) but a Western film entrenched in masculinity discourse.

Rob Fitzpatrick of New Musical Express gave the song a mixed to positive review, writing that it sounds not only like a perfect imitation or replication of classic funk, but also like a derivation of various other sources and motifs.

Here, a larger set of stimuli was used (60) in a dynamic experimental setting in which sounds not only varied in frequency, but also in duration.

The scientists found that certain sounds not only affected people's sense of saltiness or sweetness, they also influenced how crunchy some types of food sounded to the diners – which in turn affected their perceptions of freshness and palatability.

By comparison his four centerpiece albums sound not only overexposed but often bland and airless.

This might sound not only out of sync with a professed societal object ambivalence, but also a bit dull.

Again, this makes you sound not only defensive, but as though you are shirking responsibility and merely interested in doing the bare minimum required to get by, Kerr says.

The overture sounded not only un-French but also simply square — the more so in contrast to the lithe and fluid playing that William Lacey had drawn from the orchestra the night before in "Die Zauberflöte".

In his hands the symphony sounded not only important but also prescient; if some passages were undeniably derivative, others seemed to predict the future ecstasies of composers like John Adams and Michael Torke.