Smacks of a bit of guilt, doesn't it?
The name smacks of those bits on The Apprentice where, given half an hour to come up with a business name, the teams panic and end up settling on something like "Symbiosis".
Another reviewer pointed to some "minor flaws", saying the HUD "smacks of 16-bit era graphics"; The game impressed Great Drakons reviewer, who praised the attention to detail and the reviewer found the story convincing.
It's one of those things – it smacks a bit of reality shows and razzamatazz and entertainment".
Unfortunately, "Eugene O'Neill" (written by Mr. Burns and O'Neill's biographers, Arthur Gelb, a former managing editor of The New York Times, and Barbara Gelb) chooses not to address the doubters and smacks a bit of hagiography.
This new response smacks a bit of Steve Jobs' recommendation to hold iPhone 4s differently in the wake of 2010's Antennagate situation, but really — a bit of purple popping up in your photos is nothing compared to sketchy wireless connections.
It all smacks a bit of Notting Hill via Windsor Castle.
The lemon butter sauce is a take on beurre blanc, and though it smacks a bit of the 1970s, it's also sensational with mackerel, salmon and even shrimp mousse.
On the other hand, there is something about this that smacks a bit of separate-but-equal, and something that seems to put African-American intellectuals in a ghetto that limits, in both subtle and blatant ways, what they can talk about and when it is best for them to do so.
Frankly, it also smacks a bit of desperation.
