Sentence examples for sounds slight from inspiring English sources

The subject sounds slight, but Thorpe digs surprisingly deep, asking questions about stereotypes and self-loathing that are seldom asked.

The purported effect sounds slight, but to be even slightly on the wrong side of the speed of light is forbidden in the world that Einstein described.

On physical exam there was moderate dyspnoea with abdominal respiration and increased vesicular sounds, slight neck extension, blood stained saliva as well as fever (Table  1).

They sounded slight in his mouth, like nothing.

To Robin Daning, 65, a Grand Rapids resident who voted for Mr. Amash in 2010, the grievances sounded slight.

Ellison calls his fourth album, Until the Quiet Comes, 'a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleeps and lullabies', and while the recording can sound slight and semi-formed, live it gains in physicality.

The sound slighted the bottom end of the spectrum (and of course there was no pipe organ for the Eighth).

On which subject Collins, who writes about British urban culture, sounds a slight cautionary note: "She is amazing, but it's premature to be comparing her to Aretha.

Whatever sensory beauty words have in their sounds is slight and secondary; not so with painting, where colour, line, and space have a beauty all their own and need stand for nothing outside themselves to satisfy the eye.

The film will be screened on Wednesday 28 December on BBC1, and on paper sounds so slight that I was quite unprepared for its impact – poignant and subtle, yet powerful enough to haunt me for weeks afterwards.

But where Oliveros is deep, Franzson intentionally employs surface sounds, the slight scrapping and purling of instruments, for a piece that is also part installation art and all mood.