Sentence examples for from the whiff from inspiring English sources
Aside from the whiff of sexism, to suggest the book is flowery and unchallenging is unjust.
The show could be dragged from the whiff of Nineties mediocrity to Noughties political correctness and worldly empathy.
Doherty is free from the whiff of cordite that swirls around many of the Sinn Féin candidates north and south of the Irish border.
Adams is beholden to multiple constituencies, and for some faction of supporters his charisma has always derived, at least in part, from the whiff of cordite.
Attitudes to marriage, sexuality and matters of race are seemingly more liberal than ever; wherever you go, you're never very far from the whiff of marijuana smoke.
"Two old women, fresh from the whiff of the briny," Mr. Watson projected in a booming baritone, loosened by voice exercises he performed in the car.
The opposite experience, perhaps, from coming across the whiff of real danger, terror or mystery that is myth, is the precise experience of meeting real individuated characters in a tale, people one begins to imagine in three dimensions.
I only came in here myself because I had a headache, after looking at all the eye-test dot paintings that punctuate Hirst's Tate Modern survey show, and catching the whiff from Crematorium, Hirst's 1996 ashtray – huge as a hot tub – filled with shovel-loads of old fag-butts and ash, drug-taking paraphernalia, sweet wrappers and swizzle sticks.
But quite apart from the heady whiff of power and the abundance of museums and historic sites, there is nothing quite like springtime in the nation's capital.
And organic farmers are insistent that their products must be protected from the slightest whiff of GM pollen.The danger of modified crops (particularly oilseed rape) seeding in nearby fields has been overstated.
From the first whiff of a funnel cake at Point Pleasant, memories come rushing back and the stomach begins to growl for the pizza at Vic's in Bradley Beach, the corned beef hash at Frank's in Asbury Park, and the burgers at Woodies on Long Beach Island.
