Sentence examples for it smacks too from inspiring English sources

But he doesn't support that either; it smacks too much of "the heavy hand of government".

But to most voters it smacks too much of the greed and incompetence they associate with the powers-that-be.The two remaining parties are wild cards.

"It smacks too closely of another Asian financial crisis when you get rumors of big write-downs by a Chinese bank".

It smacks too much of TV news "pimping" for ratings, concludes Ed Cray, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

I also try adding a little sugar to the pan to caramelise the bread lightly, as Dinan Gunawardena suggests on Twitter, but it smacks too much of French toast, a dish which made me violently sick aged 11 and has never since passed my lips.

It smacks too much of giving every child a trophy for showing up.

A national program to develop robots for use in nuclear emergencies was terminated in midstream because it smacked too much of underlying danger.

In 2008, I had built a "convention bounce adjustment" into the FiveThirtyEight presidential forecasting model but then removed it — most of the regular readers in the FiveThirtyEight community thought it smacked too much of fudging the numbers, and I concurred.

Even if the play is not perfect - the family friend unable to repress his own memories of the Nazi death camps smacks too much of an antithetical device - it is brave, honest and urgent.

But perhaps that smacks too much of politically unpopular hard work.

That defense smacks too much of the disingenuous protestation of a guilty child.