These were his kind of conditions, a whiff of home.
The real gem wasn't in competition but in the more experimental (and this year, dull) Un Certain Regard selection and it came from the grand master of the filmic game, Jean-Luc Godard, or JLG as he's now known, like some kind of perfume (a whiff of bitterness, with top notes of genius).
"This kind of deal does have the whiff of class warfare almost, where the voices of two billionaires meeting privately substitutes for millions of regular people having a chance to vote," Mr. Cantor said.
To some, even though its self-authored Google listing brands it as a "libertarian, non-racist party", it will always give off the whiff of a kind of rightwing politics that often blurs into the lunatic fringe.
I get concerned when regulators and legislators get a whiff of any kind of technological development because they are tempted to regulate it.
We got a whiff of this kind of fascism in Missouri last week when Obama partisans in various law-enforcement capacities pledged publicly to use their official police powers to go after anyone they believed to be unfairly portraying their candidate in political advertising.
Accordingly, he believes if there's a whiff of any kind of fiscal conservatism that could get government spending under control -- through, say, the Republicans winning the House -- gold could whacked for a loss of about $100 to $200 an ounce over the next six weeks.
You still get whiffs of the kind of American TV series -- everything from Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue to The Shield -- that were influenced by the British original.
His tales crackle with a kind of bush-doctor magic, with just a whiff of the sacred.Others aim at universal themes with a Jamaican twist.
The organizers were trying to entice buyers who could have been expected to take a tried-and-true brownstone row house, and who were suspicious of any kind of group living that had even a whiff of the tenement house.
