1.   Every word and hysterical inflection of their pitched battles, in which she repeatedly provokes him to lose his temper, rings painfully true.

2.   Every slippery nuance of a power game that ends in what would be called statutory rape in the United States rings nastily true.

3.   In a work of this sort, in which no one rings remotely true, you have to hope the playwright is a brilliant plot mechanic or linguistic stylist.

4.   One day Lansford told him something else, something that rings especially true these days.

5.   Whether it is religion or science, fiction or the excuses of an ex-president, you can only believe what rings true.

6.   Would the same observations ring true?

7.   New ground it does not break, but the album rings beautifully true to its style.