Example Sentences

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But if the swiftness of the decision seemed clear-cut and ringingly decisive, the verdict proved less so.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Rachel Chavkin, the Tony Award-winning director of “Hadestown,” refers to the classic audition, ringingly, as the “social contract” of the theater.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2019

“Captured in spare, ringingly authentic dialogue and leavened with ironic humor, Ford’s close-up on quietly desperate lives, like Walker Evans’s famous photos, is beautiful and disturbing,” Publishers Weekly said of her 1989 novel, “Monkey Bay.”

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2017

This triggers Stockmann's famous confrontation with the community in which he ringingly declares that the majority are enemies of truth and that "the minority is always right".

From The Guardian • May 14, 2013

"He would do whatever was right," he said . . . ringingly, to make up for his hesitation.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin