While this may not be illegal, it smacks of bad-faith conduct that falls outside the intent of the government test method designed to accurately measure TV energy use".
The theatre critic Mark Shenton, associate editor of the Stage newspaper, said the affair smacked of "bad board management … They knew what they were getting when they appointed her.
His offers of dialogue smack of bad faith and the government shows no sign of entertaining the opposition's demands.In this section One phone, many countries A test of political maturity Unspoken desire Class war ReprintsContrary to the regime's claim, these do not include the overthrow of the government (though that would surely delight many).
Whatever the case, the whole affair smacked of bad timing, and May, ill-advised, was left dangling — making nice, as protocol demands, but falling seriously out of step with the electorate back home, who gazed at the antics of the new President and wondered what kind of guest he would make.
The gist is basically that Cisco will probably get a nice fat settlement, but the various tricks and tactics used by Apple, including creating a rumored front company called Ocean Telecom in Trinidad and Tobago, smack of bad John Grisham fiction.
So many moments smacked of bad producing.
"This smacks of a bad adviser trying to make him seem less grandfatherly," said Marion Maneker, author of "Dreaming in the Dark: Lessons in Men's Style From the Movies".
In a recent article for Gramophone, Alden admitted that he had doubts about the piece, and, in particular, about the depiction of the gay character, Junior, as a basket case; it smacks of the bad old days when homosexuality was allowed into the theatre only as an epiphenomenon of mental illness and violence.
