Sentence examples for a whiff of setting from inspiring English sources

A whiff of setting cement and fresh paint pervades Natal's new terminal.

If members of the black-metal faithful had their eyes closed, they might get a whiff of what sets Liturgy apart, but only a mild one.

And once it has a whiff of ethanol to set it off, it can feed on anything, too.

There's a whiff of '70s jet set to the silhouettes; Nassirzadeh was inspired in part by Mimi, the Tehran boutique her grandmother owned in that era, which carried European labels in a space designed by Bijan.

Because these books must begin with a whiff of crime, "The Silver Swan" is set in motion by a dead woman.

This shifting of Greek tragedy to a domestic setting has a whiff of TS Eliot's 1949 The Cocktail Party (thankfully, minus the darkness and the verse); the humorous treatment of serious subjects comes across as Ayckbourn-esque (sadly, neither so funny nor so cannily crafted as, for instance, his 1972 suicide-themed Absurd Person Singular).

Who will catch whom?" In the combustible atmosphere of small-town India — thick with rumor, hysteria and more than a whiff of high-level corruption — the recent deaths set off a frenzy.

The set has not a whiff of lyrical New Orleans about it; the play might as well be taking place in downtown Cleveland.

A whiff of a dumpster will usually do the trick.

Set in San Francisco, Chance has more than a whiff of film noir, particularly in Mol's shadowy character.

A whiff of hypocrisy?