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And there are his furniture and his clothes, none of which has any value at all except to me because they remind me of him and because, when I stand near them in his closet, I can still smell his smell of hair and skin and leather shoes, the closet smelling a lot like he smelled when he came home from work in 1954 carrying a newspaper that said there could be no more racial segregation in schools.
Alone in her kitchen with her cutting board, she seems to be smelling her own faint over-ripeness; when Mortensen holds his stare a beat too long, her body bends toward his as if it knows, on a cellular level, that this way lies nourishment.
By Saturday, the pundits were smelling smoke but decided that the press still hadn't "found the fire" (Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) sensed an element of "Greek tragedy" to the story, although he didn't specify whether he was referring to Oedipus Rex or Antigone . Thomas and Jack Germond found it easier to cast aspersions on Clinton's partner in ...
A sophisticated nose might thus distinguish a fruity wine as smelling like citrus, berry, tree fruit, tropical fruit, or dried fruit.
It also recommends packing the "Bride's Emergency Kit," whose 30-plus items include smelling salts, a small flashlight, directions to the reception, and masking tape.