The Arachnia chittered something in his native tongue that sounded uncomfortably like annoyance.

After years of keeping the lads busy, with 'make-work' assignments, the idea of just doing nothing sounded uncomfortably like being dead.

It was starting to sound uncomfortably like a project relationship, but if there was anyone who wouldn't submit to that kind of thing, it was Richard.

"Ekkava-that sounds uncomfortably like a Klingon ship," he said.

"Serena, you sound uncomfortably like your father."

He talks vaguely about setting up a "third republic," which sounds uncomfortably like the Third Reich.

Even for someone trained to fly a starship between systems, they sounded uncomfortably like the future.

And sometimes Drew sounded uncomfortably like a nagging conscience.

"So far it sounds uncomfortably like us Terries."

He waited, trying to stifle what sounded uncomfortably like deranged giggling.