It sounds quite noble, but it can never be easily applied in a particular situation.

That may not sound noble but it's my choice.

You sound so very noble, but I think there is something more basic behind it.

Makes him sound noble and all that, which, I suppose, he was.

The way I put it, it sounded quite noble and altruistic.

As in the past, they sound noble, but are purely political.

Some people just want to "be healthy," which - while vague - certainly sounds noble.

But fighting inflation sounds more noble than moaning about cost.

But at other times he would sound like a minor Angostin noble.

Its goal sounds noble: to make permanent a process begun in Nuremberg to bring war criminals to justice.