A day earlier, a help-wanted advertisement in The Houston Chronicle seemed to smack of blacklisting.
It's old-fashioned and a little corny; so, it seems to smack of a pitch by Representative Paul.
As the Gospels show, the application of the name Son of God to Jesus was offensive to the Jews, probably because it seemed to smack of Gentile polytheism.
To the left the dishes emerged with a whoosh of steam that literally seemed to smack me dizzy every one and a half minutes.
Such preoccupation with individual performances seems to smack against the image of Japan as a group society, and that topsy-turviness is not lost on Andrew Gordon, a professor of Japanese history at Harvard and author of a book on Matsuzaka.
The scramble of actors to land the part where they got to say "cunt" on stage seemed to smack more of a celebrity bandwagon than a feminist movement, and some critics suggested Ensler was little more than a theatrical one-trick pony, exploiting the word vagina as a publicity stunt.
Evans tactfully gave her the chance to do some of her regular stuff — front kicks so high that she seemed to smack her face, a flying leap onto Hanna's chest, where she landed with an audible thud (Hanna should get a bonus) — but the main fact of this piece was that Bouder, in a low-cut leotard, did a dance full of long lifts and arabesques, things she could not have done by herself.
Eagleton was unknown to many delegates and the choice seemed to smack of traditional ticket balancing considerations.
Well, personally, this seems to smack somewhat of a food fad or even, sadly, the next sickness du jour.
Philosophically, this seems to smack of essentialism but... should there be a mechanistic explanation(s) of the 0, 1, and 2 scaling (and I can think of some), this would be a real step ahead in our understanding of how genomes evolve.
