When my nose first got a whiff of its pungent, acidic odour, my stomach began to churn.
Like their very names, Ms Wiggins's characters never quite dispel a whiff of contrivance.
At one point, the smell of laundry drifted into the dining room, a whiff of steerage.
Even the headlines in the city's normally gung-ho sports dailies have a whiff desperation about them.
Post-Warhol, a whiff of glamour, kitsch or celebrity no longer tarnishes an artist's reputation.
Whenever there is a whiff of political or economic easing internally, Fidel quickly snuffs it out.
It appears there was more than a whiff of institutional arrogance to the plan.
But this whiff of hypocrisy is just one of the many problems with this proposition.
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There is a whiff of opposition against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad among Iranians, especially students.
Typically its concepts are not fully narrative, though the whiff of a story might waft through.
Portman and Shinner even provide test tubes from which restaurant customers can get a whiff.
When that wholesale market gets a whiff of problems then the money simply flees.
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His idea carries the quixotic whiff of Esperanto, the international language that failed to become mainstream.
There is also more than a whiff of old-fashioned money politics about the Dean campaign.
In many ways, Material has more than a whiff of Moosa's own life-story about it.
You can, and should, select a stripped-down annuity that has not a whiff of insurance protection.
They could not be seen to abandon a longstanding ally at the first whiff of tear-gas.
The whiff of an accounting scandal sent shares in the Canadian telecoms-equipment firm tumbling.
That will strengthen the whiff of Putinism that some already scent around Mr Orban's government.
If you have siblings, discuss your concerns with them to avoid any whiff of misunderstanding.
The typical American Express Card customer never even gets a whiff of its existence.
Nevertheless, around Messrs Deri, Netanyahu and Weizman there is an unmistakable whiff of gloating.
Middle-of-the-road, middle-class Spaniards are still put off by a whiff of autocratic intolerance in his party.
There is a lot of prestige (men like the uniforms and the whiff of bravery).
Any whiff of politics at the agency is unacceptable, and this is far more than a whiff.
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There's a whiff here of the old Soviet approach of blaming foreigners for anything that goes wrong.
The problem is they can fall dramatically, too, and on just a whiff of an economic slowdown.
To scrub every last whiff of sleaze from the used-car business, CarMax makes its sticker prices fixed.
And that means there's not a whiff of humility nor an ounce of effort to mask intention.
Because any time the slightest whiff of boredom sets in, the kids start robotically groping for it.
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