Sounds like a distinction without a difference to me.

The talk is beginning to sound like the idle chatter of a team without answers.

That would be to make them signs of nothing, sounds without signification.

He himself sounded good for three more days without it.

This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags.

While that may sound like a detail without a difference, Witherington said it's quite significant.

You don't think that sounds like the words of a person without a conscience?

But last night he sounded like a coach without much hope for improvement.

It sounded a silly threat in George's own ears, one without force.

And I always asked myself whether my music would sound the same without these trees, clouds, houses.