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In addition, Mr. Ceglia is accused of forging a series of e-mails that sounded rather fantastical on their face.

The audience then took to yelling "RC! RC!" in a chant that sounded rather less supportive than intended.

Mr. Millepied spoke also of his ambitions to create a structure to encourage would-be choreographers that sounded rather like City Ballet's Choreographic Institute.

"I'm pleased to say that we remain on track to meet this goal," the president said, in a tone that sounded rather belligerent considering this was supposed to be good news.

The result was tentative, with the vocal line a sort of expressionist sprechstimme (a cross between speaking and singing) that sounded rather bland, especially in Hamlet's tortured soliloquy from Act I, Scene 2. But the quartet writing, which incorporates serial techniques, is richly scored.

If that sounded rather vapid, it was as nothing compared with Mandelson's intervention on these pages: an extended hyperventilation about Corbyn and his allies using comparable methods to the ones that clinched Blair and co's grip on the party all those years ago.

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The Commission continues by urging Greece to press on with reforms, with a promise that sounds rather like a threat the task force will help, if necessary.

It was Sex Pistol Jones, not wide-eyed frontman John Lydon, who said "what a fucking rotter" on teatime TV – a phrase that sounds rather quaint 40 years on.

On the other side is the superb young American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, who hits all the notes but cossets them in diction that sounds rather too plummy for a lumberjack — "ahnd" for "and," "yoooo" for "you".

Five times Lancashire had made it to T20 Finals day without winning, most agonisingly last year when they lost off the final ball, but the Red Rose county put those frustrating memories behind them on Saturday night, beating Northamptonshire by a margin that sounds rather more comfortable than it was.

This involves greening the central part of the town, an initiative that sounds rather too romanticised against the background of macro-economic sustainability in the country.

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