Sentence examples for having a whiff from inspiring English sources
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] proposalsSIR – You were right to characterise Republican efforts to alter the Electoral College as having "a whiff of desperation" ("Moving the goalposts", February 9th).
I am thrilled to see the brilliant playwright Harley Granville Barker receiving attention, but I must take exception to Charles McGrath's characterization of contemporary productions of his plays as having "a whiff of musty drawing room and mothballed frock coat".
Ralph Manheim's translation, which in the 1980's struck me as having a whiff of anachronism about it — with its "crummies" and "cow flop," all the transliterations of Parisian street argot that had the French academicians writhing with delighted outrage — now achieves an almost stately classicism.
He described the song's busy production as "having a whiff of the Berline "teknoklub" that is a "racket in the best possible way".
Even 20 years ago the crossing still had a whiff of the exotic.
That encounter had a whiff of an espionage film script.
