Meaning of ring of authenticity | Babel Free

Examples

“The letter lacked a ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.”

“[…]but newspaper readers now-a-days are pretty well able to discriminate between items of news that have the true ring of authenticity about them...”

“The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.”

“Certainly there is no part of the Gospel record which has for the reader a clearer ring of authenticity.”

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