He hardly sounds ready to retire.
She sounds ready to coach some more.
Even his name, with its short syllabic bursts, sounds ready for ESPN exultations.
He also sounds ready for the N.F.L., referring to himself occasionally in the third person.
If confidence counts for anything, Noel sounds ready to take over the starring role.
Not that the character, with Mr. Cooper's Hollywood smile straining maniacally, appears or sounds ready for ordinary human contact.
Gallinari fell out of the rotation earlier in the week, but D'Antoni sounds ready to give him another extended look.
Clijsters has a tattoo on the inside of her left wrist in honor of her daughter that reads "Jada", but she sounds ready for some more body art.
Lex 303, a Murray Hill newcomer, sounds ready to drive right off the lot, a high-performance European import with a base price of $38,995.
Put another way, there is a touch of the outlaw in Mr. Johnson, and in his songs, that's another old pose that sounds ready to be new again.
After the premise is established pre-credits, the laughs ought to keep coming, and certainly the show's barking laugh track sounds ready to roll.
