Sentence examples for smacks of forward planning from inspiring English sources

Certainly the decision to keep Martin Johnson on the bench, an eminently reasonable one, smacks of forward planning, although the pedigree of Ben Kay and Danny Grewcock is so high that Johnson's omission might be justified on every level.

"There's been a huge amount of forward planning.

This forward planning was roundly jeered by my fellow-passengers as the action of a tightwad, yet there was no mistaking the smack of licked lips around me as I unwrapped my treasure; this turned to rabid frothing when we arrived, at ten past two, in a small, well-preserved Italian town — so well preserved that it stopped serving lunch at two o'clock.

Forward planning is advisable.

Team Obama says the plan smacks of desperation; their man plans to spend the day with his family, pausing only for a game of pick-up basketball.

This term is problematic because it smacks of anticipation as though evolution had somehow planned those early feathers as the first step in the evolution of bird flight and that, once they evolved, their transformation into flight feathers was inevitable.

Mr. Issa's plan smacks of a desire for political theater and headlines.

However, the party hit back, saying the plan smacks of trickery.

It drives me crazy because it's difficult to plan and it smacks of carelessness.

• To the Editor: The House Republican leaders' desire to further restrict abortion coverage in health care reform could threaten private health insurance plans and smacks of hypocrisy.

The hotel management's plan to hire Camille Tucker smacks of nepotism and poses a conflict of interest, said the two residents, Benjamin Holifield and Basil Kimbrew.