The Kremlin feels therefore that it must rush headlong into further action, constantly coming up with smokescreens to assure the population that their once humiliated nation is now rising up again and can dictate terms to the world.
Francis attempts to distract us from Catholic sexual predators with a smokescreen of fake moralizing about gay people and their rights to live as equals in society.
Despite all the public furore over the Snowden exposé, we seem to have arrived at a very "British coup -style result with a smokescoup -styleresult the reinvention of the principle of the "police investigating the police".
The dream of the total archive — a free-floating "videotheque" — is not necessarily one of historicizing dependence, of pathological, permanent nostalgia that weighs down filmmakers, critics, and viewers alike while obscuring new artistic invention with a smokescreen of learning.
Thirty years ago, after making a series of controversial documentaries on smoking, including Dying for a Fag (1975) and A Dying Industry (1980), I wrote Smoke Ring: the Politics of Tobacco, outlining an industry denying the medical evidence linking cigarettes to deadly diseases with a smokescreen of deception and lies.
"It is utterly unacceptable that any school, head teacher or local authority should be able to surround the clarity of CfE with a smokescreen of bureaucracy and unnecessary paperwork.
Ahead of his speech to the conference on Saturday, the education secretary said CfE was designed to bring "clarity" and that schools, head teachers and councils should not surround this with "a smokescreen of bureaucracy and unnecessary paperwork".
52 Salivary cotinine was tested with a SmokeScreen device.
I don't buy the "I sailed through it all with nary a hiccup" smokescreen.
Using religious language as a smokescreen, and with promises of strict religious ceremonies, it claims it will "keep it halal".
