11.   But after the incident in the Hale Koa hotel in Honolulu, Ms. Hoster said, the speeches that she wrote for McKinney rang hollow.

12.   But his words ring hollow.

13.   But the confession rang hollow to Gary Marconi, a Cook County prosecutor who investigated the case.

14.   But the hearty Scots summons has rung hollow for many people from here for centuries.

15.   But the film, about the uneasy joint occupation of an Ionian island by Italian and German military detachments during World War II, rings hollow in the end.

16.   But the newspaper also said that the righteous indignation of the politicians besmirched in the scandal rang hollow.

17.   But the reassurances ring hollow to many residents.

18.   Cries that such programs award jobs to less-qualified people ring hollow when less-qualified white men have enjoyed automatic superiority for generations.

19.   For one thing, the argument of term-limits supporters that the Founding Fathers envisioned a Congress of short-time citizen legislators rather than careerists rang hollow.