The phrase "a telling indication of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to highlight something that reveals or suggests a particular truth or fact about a situation.
Example: "The sudden drop in sales is a telling indication of the company's declining reputation."
Alternatives: "a clear sign of" or "a significant marker of".
"This decree is a telling indication of what the authorities have in store and might hint at more mass detentions".
Now the mainstream press is getting involved too, a telling indication of a thaw on this issue.
Spaghetti Elizabeth Taylor, made with three types of tomato, is a headline dish in the Splendido's terrace restaurant, perhaps a telling indication of the establishment's charming historic cultural co-ordinates.
A telling indication of the bullishness of buyers was the zest with which they bid on works from the Peter Norton Collection, which accounted for the first 29 lots.
That the key global economic statistic has for so long been derived by means which are patently useless is a telling indication of how little the men who run the world care about the impact of their policies.
Here are five members to keep an eye on when the vote is called; whether they are a "yea" or a "nay"will be a telling indication of where Boehner's bill is headed.
Those statistics were merely for the record in a contest all about preparations for next week's first Test in Ahmedabad, and top of England's list was a telling indication as to the identity of the man to replace the retired Andrew Strauss at the top of the order.
This, together with a similar agreement made by Isaac II Angelos (1185 1195 and 1203 1204) with Venice the next year, in which the Republic would provide 40 100 galleys at six months' notice in exchange for favourable trading concessions, is a telling indication that the Byzantine government was aware of the inadequacy of its own naval establishment.
An even more telling indication of the eagerness to buy images with famous names pinned on them was provided by a second picture credited to Modigliani.
Now with 12 points from a possible 15, they face Group F leaders Romania on 13 June for what will be another telling indication of the potential and growth of this squad.
An even more telling indication of just how comprehensively children's writers have dominated last year's borrowing figures, though, is provided by the list of authors with the most books in the Top 100.
