ring true
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Meaning
ring true (third-person singular simple present rings true, present participle ringing true, simple past rang true, past participle rung true)
(idiomatic) To seem to be correct, or plausible
His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me.
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Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.