Sentence examples for it rings false from inspiring English sources

Penn objected to the emphasis on Clyde's bisexuality – the writers were inspired by Truffaut's Jules et Jim and they had Bonnie, Clyde and driver CW Moss in a ménage à trois – but Penn convinced them that "it rings false"; he brought in Robert Towne to refashion the script with Benton and Newman.

You'll know instantly if something sounds right or if it rings false.

Even when a story ends with the narrator suggesting that a couple lived happily ever after, it rings false.

No, the author is giving young Robert a memory, and, unless it is another anti-realist trick, it rings false". In discussion, the author conceded that he was not interested in mimicking ordinary inarticulacy.

Observed off duty he is a jocular, community-spirited family man with few traces of the sadistic monster he becomes on the job; the disparity is so extreme it rings false.

But some of it is very odd, and nowhere more so than among the women's commune – by rights, the most interesting strand of the narrative – where it rings false in places and is outright baffling in others.

It's alternately optimistic and despairing, but it never rings false.

It just rings false to call him Ed".

No doubt this reticence is supposed to reflect familial loyalty and the repressed nature of spousal relationships at the turn of the last century, but it somehow rings false, given these characters' otherwise very modern sensibilities.

They say they are "ripped from today's headlines" (which can be really annoying if you happen to be reading today's paper), but it all rings false for me.

It rings slightly false, given the polished, consumer-ready nature of his work, which reads as deeply aware of its audience's expectations.