Sentence examples for detects a whiff of from inspiring English sources

He also detects a whiff of condescension.

The author of these lines detects a whiff of conspiracy without being able to say with any certainty – as is the case with all the best conspiracies – who the conspirators are or, for that matter, exactly what form the conspiracy takes or what it is intended to achieve.

J.K. Galbraith, who recounts the story in "A Short History of Financial Euphoria", detects a whiff of anti-Semitism in Warburg's treatment.If it is hard to stop booms once they are in full swing, it is no easier to prevent them from starting in the first place.

(One detects a whiff of schadenfreude here on the part of Jacques, a former editor of Marxism Today who clearly has a bone to pick not only with the Washington Consensus on economic development but with the advocates of multiparty democracy and human rights).

I detect a whiff of desert wildflowers.

Liberals detected a whiff of racist eugenics.

You say you detect a whiff of rationalization?

But some industry analysts detect a whiff of desperation.

Yet it is hard to detect a whiff of revolution.

Still, I can't help detecting a whiff of American hypocrisy here.

If you detect a whiff of minimalist defeatism there, you're right.