The phrase "a kind of ring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or functions similarly to a ring, often in a metaphorical or descriptive context.
Example: "The design of the new bracelet is unique; it has a kind of ring that adds an elegant touch to the overall look."
Alternatives: "a type of ring" or "a sort of ring".
That stickup is a kind of ring encircling "Pulp Fiction"; what it encircles, though, is not a stable planet but three semi-independent narrative platforms, each one spinning on a magician's stick.
These two groups of facets dubbed F out and F gap facets form together a kind of ring structure.
Disraeli's English history was, in any event, partly fantasy — a bedtime story served up for his none too bright young acolytes, a kind of "Ring" cycle designed for Bertie Wooster — and partly an early, genuine expression of the antibourgeois reaction that has been such a potent strain in modern politics.
His story would be a classic baseball fable, a kind of Ring Lardner yarn about the occasional cruelty of the national pastime and the amnesia that afflicts fans and owners--except that fables tend to have morals, and it's hard for the man behind the bloody sock to find any moral in what's happened to him.
The only real alternative is to use the acronym, but "OWS-ers" doesn't exactly have any kind of ring to it, either.
Like the Rosetta Stone, Welcher says, the disk is designed to be a kind of decoder ring for the future.
What he scorns is the notion, typified by the trainspotter who seeks out the real Alison, that he left behind a remark like that as a kind of decoder ring, a key to understanding his character or his work.
For "The Hershey Man," the intimate theatre at the Joyce SoHo is transformed into a kind of boxing ring, in which Medina shares space with images that are at times filled with poetry, and at others, with violence and pain.
Witherspoon is such a fiercely bright screen presence with a kind of Colgate ring of over-confidence; she needs a savvy director with firm fingers on the brightness and contrast dials.
"Obviously it has a kind of noble ring to it," Mr. Kerr said, as he drove past one of the Integrity House properties, a small apartment building that the group is renovating to provide beds for 40 women.
For publishers, the craze over "Downton" serves as a kind of mood ring revealing the cultural tastes of viewers who are also likely to be book buyers, in the way that "Mad Men" inspired the revival of skinny ties and patterned sheath dresses (though no one seems to be suggesting that "Downton Abbey" will rekindle a longing for the corset).
