On Capitol Hill, military reform has the unpleasant ring of bases being closed and pet weapons projects getting axed.

That had an unpleasant ring of truth.

There is an unpleasant ring to it.

But this has an unpleasant ring for some, almost a Mafia taint.

"Force projection" has an unpleasant, bellicose ring to it.

It had an unpleasant metallic ring.

"Avshar hates everyone," Scaurus said, but Gorgidas' words carried an unpleasant ring of truth in them.

It gave the statement an unpleasant ring of truth.

Invas' had a particularly unpleasant ring to it.

That had the unpleasant ring of self-excuse, and he had no will to soften his own guilt by the least shade.