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Even if alarm bells probably should have clanged the moment Bent claimed to "really like" Antony Gormley's controversial Angel of the North sculpture, his deception touched a raw north-eastern nerve.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2011

I don't know, of course, but it seems to me in that case they might have clanged a little like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra