He argues that musicology must, therefore, study the concrete history of musical practice to be empirical, and not merely sound.

It merely sounds like the sweeping yet sensitive mood music to a movie.

"That sounds merely like a postponement of the inevitable," said the lion.

But he never really integrates the piano writing into a fresh musical context; it merely sounds thin, as if something was missing.

Alarms have come a long way from the systems that merely sounded when a door was opened improperly.

Under the circumstances, the effort was ridiculous, and they merely sounded stilted.

He sounded not merely dismissive, which I might have expected, but miffed.

Merely sounding each other out away from protocol and recorders.

But, in the absence of any personal profile the work merely sounds like an exercise in note spinning.

She tried to sound cool and precise, but had a feeling she merely sounded prissy.