chill ring

The words had a chilling ring to them.

It was the only form of communication the elderly man had, but its chilling ring quickly became a harbinger of death.

That has a chilling ring too.

She took the chill ring, a serpent shape, slipped it onto her thumb, for that was all it would fit.

Lines Between the Lines Yet buried deep in the film is a single scene with a chilling ring of truth.

In the aftermath of World War II, that word - applied to Bartok by Rene Leibowitz, an early mentor of Pierre Boulez, in an infamous article of 1947 - had a chilling ring.

Those words of reassurance had a chilling ring yesterday, when Mr. Ortiz learned that Officer Mosomillo had been killed in the line of duty, by a shot to the neck that caused injures eerily similar to his own.

Like all of the action sequences in The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan shoots it with a minimum of artifice, fuss and computer graphics; a technique that gives some fairly far-fetched scenarios in this film a chilling ring of plausibility.