Sentence examples for smacks of something from inspiring English sources

Simplify! movement smacks of something entirely at odds with the unburdening that true simplification should bring.

President Barack Obama leaned — and Trump is leaning — toward this idea, which smacks of something like cooperation.

The community is large and has buying power, so this smacks of something that just economically makes good sense".

Regrettably, they make their peace, but, for a moment, the sequence smacks of something threatening and fresh: oldster noir.

This smacks of something that has been dreamed up to appease the focus groups, and it's hard to see how Labour will beat the Tories on antisocial behaviour.

Not only does it make the job market even more unfair than it already is, but it smacks of something very pre-modern and feudal.

I'm with her: too many herbs and spices smack of something to hide.

But the last-minute pulling of a film that had already passed the censors, with cuts already made to please them, smacked of something else: arbitrariness.

But the band's standards of musicianship and athleticism have always smacked of something more serious, and lately, more straight-ahead.

On day two they officially ran out of talking heads, unless you're going to tell me that the telly comeback of Kenneth Baker Kenneth Bakerer! – smacked of something other than sensational desperation.

To Mr. Marbach, Mr. Andrews's candidacy smacked of something else: a sense of annoyance by a younger generation of political leaders who feel that they have paid their dues but have not been able to rise because — rightly or wrongly — their forebears will not get out of the way.