Too political, and she risks sounding like a campaign poster.

To review the audience is to risk sounding like an insufferable snob.

There was a spirit of identification - a sense of family, to risk sounding maudlin - that the store's employees seemed to share.

Many Americans see buying as a way to aid the economy, but sellers can risk sounding as if they are capitalizing on the war.

A substantial news follow-up would risk sounding relentlessly sanctimonious.

I risk sounding sexist, but men were generally easier customers than women.

Self-consciousness kept her from risking sounding like a fool to this virtual stranger, who was a handsome one at that.

Socially aware rockers always risk sounding preachy or self-important.

When they try to challenge the President's commitment to domestic needs, they risk sounding like big-spenders.

Sixty billion dollars, of course, is a lot of money by anyone's measure, and no politician can risk sounding cavalier about it.