Our own modern intolerance for ordinary human smelliness is a cultural construct of fairly recent vintage. From Wordnik.com. [An Accidentally Apt Analogy] Reference
I was weirded out not just by the piece of felt and its smelliness but also by the faith attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Temple Rites, Secrecy and Social Control. | Mind on Fire] Reference
It was like she accidently stepped in something smelly and quickly pulled her foot up to avoid further smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Rape in the wake of Katrina (guest post by Mousehounde)] Reference
Pro: innate pride in the unprofitable and off-putting whether it is smelliness or railroad memorabilia collecting or the shed out back. From Wordnik.com. [stop calling me shirley] Reference
You might as well say, people vary in smelli-ness but we can make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
You might as well say that people vary in smelliness but we can make the judgment only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God] Reference
While the Romans had baths, and seem to have looked down on soap's crude smelliness, the Celts may have had a cruder approach to cleaning altogether. From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Soap] Reference
In the cabin there was only one lamp, and that was swung over the table, looking in all its smoky smelliness as if it had hung there for ages without a scrubbing. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
He tests everything that goes up in space on the shuttle or on the ISS for smelliness, from tennis shoes to teddy bears, and from refrigerators to socks or mascara. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: February 29, 2004 - March 6, 2004 Archives] Reference
"This is a full-blown stenchademic," said Dr. Guy Hammond, a leading researcher of smelliness, who added that the catastrophe will only worsen with dinner approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Satire: U.S. Breath Reaches All-Time Worst] Reference
Brooks' new HVAC heating, ventilation, and air conditioning collection keeps the body from overheating, prevents sweatiness and smelliness, and controls overall body temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Smartest Sneakers adidas adidas_1 Intelligence...] Reference
Until now, Harper has skillfully walked a tightrope between the greater or lesser smelliness of his legislation and the nuisance of voting no-confidence and heading for an election. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
River, where we now lie amid a flotilla of boats whose occupiers have fled away from the sultriness and smelliness of Srinagar in search of the cool currents, both of air and water, which are popularly supposed to flow down the Sind. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
He assumed that recollection of that titillation was preceded by a memory of his august but haggard restaurant-working father swaggering toward a second-hand reclining chair, telling him to scram, and seating himself with right foot resting on the left leg, thumping its smelliness into the air of what he always declared to be his home, his domain, like a judge with his gavel. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The children seemed to relate to the smelliness of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Kootenay Rockies - News] Reference
I would, however, like a little ginger sidekick, who is full of evil and smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Wool is a great natural waterproof that is breathable and resists sogginess and smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [farmlet.co.nz] Reference
Everyone we've shown the apartment to has had to have been prepped first about the smelliness of the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Sticky Crows] Reference
(characterised by smelliness, risk or the lapse of time) must be kept sufficiently scarce to command a higher price. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
MIRAZYME, it is the best product on the market to break down the body oils and wash away the bacteria that leads to smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Tinky is currently on a thousand mile search for the Great Erudite Sponge who will tell her all she needs to know about life and the smelliness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
Still the hard work, awkward hours and smelliness didn't put him off his ambition of becoming a chef and he came home after one particular Schnupperwoche very excited. From Wordnik.com. [Ms Mac] Reference
Although a British man made it into Guinness World Records for making the world's largest burp last September, the Irish nation could be about to set its own record for smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Being a hippy deodorant, the stone does not quite offer the same level of protection against sweat as your average anti-perspirant, but as long as you're willing to accept that, this is not a bad solution to smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hippyshopper] Reference
Umm, as someone who has had to put up with a pair of extremely smelly passengers on a 5 hour flight from coast to coast, I think there is a threshold of smelliness where offloading the passenger becomes necessary for public safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
No member of the public appeared to speak for or against Heartland's plan during a public hearing called to allow comments, although Dorwin Felker, who lives north of Heartland, asked about the smelliness of the water involved in the permit. From Wordnik.com. [McCook Daily Gazette Headlines] Reference
It was already pulsating a bit from the smelliness of the idea of repurposing the earthquake as a sort of social studies unit to teach young WASPs, not about human suffering and its root causes, but about compulsory altruism and the duty to allocate a small percentage of one's white privilege loot to indigent brown foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [I Blame The Patriarchy] Reference
I love the staples, I love the shininess and smelliness of the cover, I love that new bit where Mark Ellen does his own version of "I've Been Everywhere, Man" at the beginning, I love anything that gives Danny Baker the chance to have a page to himself, and I laughed so hard at Giles Smiths 'review of that 1970's kid's DVD thing that a little bit of wee came out. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
I've never wanted leather pants either. my husband does. i just think the smelliness might be too much. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cow Bloomers] Reference
And their weapon, smelliness. From Wordnik.com. [Smelly Invaders Want To Crawl Into Your Home] Reference
Sewers and smelliness involved. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
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