Sentence examples for that doesn't ring true from inspiring English sources
If the temptation is to say Edwards's recent legal issues affected the Jets' decision, that doesn't ring true.
There's an ill-considered scene in which Jeff plays a truly vicious joke on Elliot — he tells her Virginia is dead — that doesn't ring true.
One of the elements of Cheney's account of the shotgun incident that doesn't ring true to me is the notion that he was 30 yards away from Whittington when the shooting occurred.
It has made a realistic picture about heroes who do not pose as such about a group of hard-bitten soldiers who lie in their fox-holes and man their observation posts with never a big theatrical gesture or a comment that doesn't ring true.
The story is built around a single brilliant line ("she was struck for a moment by a glimpse of a future in which she would need to muster every ounce of selfishness she had"), but the plot is a contrivance of misery upon misery that doesn't ring true.
They say results aren't the most important things in friendlies: with Scotland, that doesn't ring true.
These are the only scenes in the movie that don't ring true.
In her estimation, the two aspects that don't ring true are the use of swearing to increase fluency (what a shame: it's a hilarious scene) and His Royal Highness agreeing to let Logue call him by his nickname, Bertie.
Still, you can protect yourself as best you can by being aware, such as when there are cracks in the outer veneer - such as seeming lies and explanations that don't ring true.
And if this is what you want, a compendium of incredible bon mots that don't ring true in the slightest and it thrills you to hear actors utter them ad nausea, please pay no attention to what I'm saying.
The film is called Sket – street-speak for prostitute – and its writer, Nirpal Bhogal, listens intently as a woman wearing a pink fedora challenges him on a certain phrase in his first draft – which incorporates themes of gang rape, violent revenge and brutal initiation ceremonies – that does not ring true.
