There had been talk from British officials about trying to achieve a Californian-style policy seminar, and a distinct whiff of Cool Britannia hung in the air.
ADVENTURE TESTING To give its Cross-Terrain line a whiff of rugged cool, Kiehl's had the products tested by adventurers, those shaggy-hot vagabonds who live the dream while you toil at a 9-to-5 desk job.
The air is cool and pure, with a whiff of the ocean and focaccia on it, and on the coldest of February days I bow to the elements and shrug into a T-shirt at the beach.
One whiff of that cool sea air, a modestly sized train station, the orange glow a taxi light beckoning; we were ready for Butlins, ready for Bugged Out.
If you weren't going for a whiff of 1960s British cool, you were out of luck.
It should slake your palate, cool you off and give you a whiff of alcohol without knocking you off your feet.
So it's a blessing that they're back with their second album, Something to Tell You, and if you are into what they do, then you know what you're getting here: cool-handed precision, indelible earworms, and a stronger whiff of vintage Fleetwood Mac than if you stuck your nose up John McVie's ass.
The title of Mr. Daugherty's piece immediately conjures up Henry Mancini's jazzy piano riff, sophisticated but with a whiff of sleaze, the theme of a very cool television show that many baby boomers experienced in the days of only black and white.
The snapshot of Noel Gallagher laughing it up with Blair has long been shorthand for mid-90s hubris and the very phrase Cool Britannia provokes an involuntary stomach-clench, like the stale whiff of empty bottles after a party that went awry.
The cool, briny pickle-barrel bouquet gives the sidewalk in front a whiff of the seashore.
