In one, judges evaluate how close a stereo comes to sounding like a live performance.
He's garrulous, sounding like a laid-back professor when talking about technology and how it's facilitating creativity.
WSJ: The Tech Investor Is With the Band: Roger McNamee and Moonalice
"I'm so proud of it, " she says, sounding like a parent examining a brilliant report card, beaming.
"We have to be the best we can be and let everything else fall out as it may, " he says, sounding like a coach.
Dr. HAYES: And so I think we have to keep repeating that, even if we physicians and the media start sounding like a broken record.
Sounding like a toned-down Sufjan Stevens or an even more toned-down Arcade Fire Seabear's quiet execution gives its music a breezy quality.
Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America's bedrock values, its language almost sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality.
Her asthma has been asymptomatic for years, but she still starts sounding like a "bad Nicolas Cage imitation" every March, when the oak trees she's allergic to release their pollen.
And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...
Rube: States the amount, in the form of a question, often sounding more like a plea.
Mr. Boss's campaign technique consists of introducing himself in a booming baritone and, sounding a bit like a mattress salesman, rattling off all his promises.
She's the rare movie star who could make such a remark without sounding like she's rehearsing a role.
WSJ: How Sissy Spacek Got From Small-Town Texas to 'Carrie' and 'The Help'
Instead, a spokesman for the relevant British arts agency (sounding a bit like he was just coming out of a pub himself, and in a mood to take a flyer) promised to increase lottery funding for film by 60 percent by 2014.
On the same day Mr Napolitano held meetings with senior political figures that looked like a sounding-out of opinion in anticipation of a possible government crisis.
The storm barreled in that night and held us in a terrifying embrace for many hours, sounding like the roar of a dozen freight engines bearing down.
On Wednesday, Jeb Bush spoke in Dallas, sounding very much like a candidate as he laid out his ideas about immigration and education.
"If I tried to play what Miles played... and it sounded like I was sounding like Miles on a bad day... then I wouldn't do it, " Lovano says.
The only exception to this, really, is a couple of curious directorial decisions in the ensemble: the enigmatic Amul Batra does a perfectly good job of sounding like Christopher Ecclestone without giving the sense of a structural underpinning of why Christopher Ecclestone sounds like Christopher Ecclestone.
"The ultimate strategy has been to create balance, " he says, sounding for a moment like a nutritionist at a spa resort.
"There was a lot of confidence to be regained on the part of the travel community, whom we had disappointed repeatedly, " says current general manager Diderik Van Regemorter, sounding a bit like an exasperated dad himself.
Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Most work-from-home or single proprietor businesses just starting out may not feel it necessary (nor can they afford) to hire a copywriter for a professional sounding bio, so a simple one like the one above is the result.
FORBES: Don't Write Yourself Off: Bio-writing Secrets to Living Larger Online
Far from sounding like an amateur drummer or a street performer banging away on overturned buckets, Nathaniel successfully navigates his expansive 'drum kit' in creative ways.
"It's very important we make sure taxpayer money is not used to reward people who should not be rewarded, " he said, sounding for the first time like a talking points politician.
There is nothing like a sweet-sounding, and all but meaningless, phrase to persuade voters to stick it to themselves once again.
FORBES: When What's "Good" For General Motors Is Not Good For America -- or Built To Last
That album finally equalled the conspicuous consumption he loves to talk about, sounding like what would be playing in a house filled with gilded bathtubs and expensive art.
You might find yourself drifting off about five tracks in, only to be woken up by Everything's Alright, which starts off sounding like Van Morrison before evolving into a fabulous angst-ridden rant.
While in college one of my good friends had a basic, American sounding name something like (name is changed to avoid embarrassing the real person) Charlie Palmer.
FORBES: Documentary Review: Dinesh D'Souza Unsuccessfully Reaches With 2016
At the risk of sounding like my text-obsessed teenagers, there has never been a better season to buy OGD (one great dress).
应用推荐