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This is why the
whiff
of disintegration is everywhere, not just in depressed Greece or in an Italy now ruled by racist populists, but also in a dangerously divided Germany.
I first caught a
whiff
of it back in the late 1990s, during the Asian financial crisis.
On Censorship in Hong KongNo jackboots are to be seen marching through Hong Kong's sleek shopping malls, but a distinct
whiff
of totalitarianism is in the air.
This probably explains the
whiff
of panic that followed China’s tiny, but totally unexpected, devaluation of the renminbi.
But this argument has the familiar
whiff
of the late stages of empire.
Yet neither of the two major political forces that have emerged in Spain in recent years, Ciudadanos and Podemos, has so much as a
whiff
of right-wing authoritarian tendencies, nor anti-European bombast.
The Mercers, who made their fortune through the high-tech genius of patriarch Robert Mercer and a hedge fund he led, fund Breitbart News, a far-right website formerly edited by Bannon that promotes ultra-nationalism and white supremacy, with a
whiff
of anti-Semitism.
A strong
whiff
of burning wood caused me to look up to the sky, where a whitish-yellow sun beckoned, surrounded by the telltale eclipse-like daytime darkness that only thick, sky-high smoke can cause.
Even among traditional conservatives, there is a
whiff
of ethical disgust at Sarkozy.
In this context, the absence of even a
whiff
of protest against financial integration is strange.
There is more than a
whiff
of hypocrisy in Putin’s anti-oligarch campaigns.
While still emphasizing family values and traditional morality, they lost the
whiff
of incense that had clung to the Christian Democratic parties at the beginning of the century – by the 1970’s, they even began to stress that one didn’t have to be a believer to join.
In a country where the national hero is the saintly Mahatma Gandhi, who considered alcohol an unmitigated evil, drinking has always carried a
whiff
of disrepute.
The IMF program may also help knock down roadblocks to privatizing Turk Telecom, and the
whiff
of instability may inspire Europe to push Turkey's membership in the EU ahead.
A
whiff
of fascism was apparent in Trump’s campaign from the outset: The strong man will eliminate the barriers keeping his supporters from getting ahead.
And his self-abasing press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin had more than a
whiff
of Chamberlain-style appeasement.
His protest against Trump’s populism bears a
whiff
of hypocrisy, given that it was Kristol who first championed the proto-Trumpian Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
This seems to vindicate warnings of the dreaded “middle-income trap” – the tendency of fast-growing developing economies to revert to a much weaker growth trajectory just when they get their first
whiff
of prosperity.
But a
whiff
of illegitimacy hangs over Macron’s laudable attempt to realign fuel prices.
Even if no corruption is involved, credit ratings and political choices are co-determined: If the ratings agencies get a
whiff
that the ECB will choke off Italian liquidity, they have a duty to their customers to downgrade Italian bonds.
In fact, the Trump administration’s behavior has a
whiff
of extortion: in 2017, Ukraine received $510 million in aid from the United States, and Trump already slashed that amount by more than half in 2018, to some $224 million.
There, the wind carried a
whiff
from the cheeses full on to our steed.
However, there was no other way; so with such show of cheerfulness as they could muster they called for the pipe and took their
whiff
as it passed, in due form.
A bugle sounded for us to cease firing, and a
whiff
of wind came to clear the curtain from in front of us, and then we could see what had happened.
For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it appeared a she-ass), she gave me a
whiff
of raw garlic that made my head reel, and poisoned my very heart."
There was one young gentleman in an India-rubber cloak, who smoked cigars all day; and there was another young gentleman in a parody upon a greatcoat, who lighted a good many, and feeling obviously unsettled after the second whiff, threw them away when he thought nobody was looking at him.
The one-eyed bagman ladled out a glass of negus from the bowl, and drank it; smoked a long
whiff
out of the Dutch pipe; and then, calling to Sam Weller who was lingering near the door, that he needn't go away unless he wanted to, because the story was no secret, fixed his eye upon the landlord's, and proceeded, in the words of the next chapter.
The sight of him was like a
whiff
of South Down air coming into that low-roofed, oil-smelling room, and I ran forward to shake him by the hand.
'Aren't you coming?' said Augustin to me, stopping a moment on the step of the partly open door - and thus brought into the room a
whiff
of air softened by the sun, a medley of twittering, calling, and chirping, the sound of a pail on the curb of a well and the cracking of a whip in the far distance.
Am I now doomed to dog the steps of every person who carries with him the faintest, most distant
whiff
of my foiled adventure? . . .
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