There is no reek of nostalgia about it, no sense that Mr Heaney is repeating himself.

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If you think that junk shot and top hat reek of desperation, well maybe so.

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They found it hard to accustom themselves to the constant eye-watering reek of horse hair and human sweat.

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Some football players who habitually point heavenward after a touchdown reek of insincerity.

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Smoking is supposedly prohibited in Beijing taxis but most of them reek of cigarettes anyway, since no taxi driver is going to pick a fight with a customer who lights up.

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It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.

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"The movement toward kindergarten readiness assessment has been a little bit of a challenge for the field over time, in that people are very concerned that it's going to reek of the kinds of assessments that are injurious to very, very young children, " said Sharon Lynn Kagan, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University who specializes in policies and standards for young children.

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On the last Sunday of July (Reek Sunday), devout pilgrims follow his original route, traditionally without shoes.

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He said studies of microbes in ice above Lake Vostok remained "contentious" because of the issue over kerosene - of which the Vostok cores are said to "reek".

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