Whether Anthony's plea sounded desperate or despondent, his teammates took note in the first half.

Her plea for his brother had sounded so sincere that he'd gotten chills and suffered an eerie sense of disagreeable familiarity.

Somehow his plea sounded genuine, when he declared: "You are making it impossible!

The plea sounded foolish even as he spoke.

I want to go home,' her plea sounded pathetic and she knew she ought to have voiced her disapproval before she'd stripped off.

His impassioned plea for an Islamic form of democracy, although moving, sounds sophistical.

As her feet slapped the ground it made her pleas sound like somebody talking in a helicopter.

Wu's plea was sounding more and more urgent.

My lady," Desai said, and wondered how honest his plea sounded to her, "I am a stranger to your people.

But here, even a plea for authentic values doesn't sound authentic.