Redolent
adjective
Having a strong smell or a particular smell.
The kitchen was redolent with the smell of baking bread.
Often appears as...
- redolent with scent
- redolent of spices
adjective
Suggestive or reminding of something.
His voice was redolent of his upscale background.
Often appears as...
- redolent of history
- voice is redolent
adjective
Having a strong smell or a particular smell.
The kitchen was redolent with the smell of baking bread.
Often appears as...
- redolent with scent
- redolent of spices
adjective
Suggestive or reminding of something.
His voice was redolent of his upscale background.
Often appears as...
- redolent of history
- voice is redolent
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Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Imagery
Create vivid sensory descriptions that incorporate smells to bring scenes to life.
The attic was redolent of old books and dust, enveloping me in nostalgia.
Pro Tip 2/3Culinary Usage
Especially useful in describing foods and cooking to convey aromas and flavors.
The dining hall was redolent with the rich aroma of roasted garlic.
Pro Tip 3/3Environmental Detail
Use to establish a location's atmosphere by describing its characteristic smell.
The garden was deeply redolent of lilacs and freshly cut grass.
Compare with
aromaticevocativefragrantperfumereflectivereminiscentscentsignature
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Why nations should...
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads. After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it's population, we're on course to top the charts.
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Why nations should...
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads. After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it's population, we're on course to top the charts.
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Shashi Tharoor
Indian Public Servant
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
It's known as the Livingstone Formulation. It's a cunning rhetorical device routinely deployed to shield avowedly left-wing establishment figures from any scrutiny that might expose their 'anti-Zionist' obsessions as redolent of a bigotry of that older and more unambiguously unsanitary type: antisemitism.
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Linda Colley
British Historian
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.
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Julia Gillard
Australian Statesman
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
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Shashi Tharoor
Indian Public Servant
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
It's known as the Livingstone Formulation. It's a cunning rhetorical device routinely deployed to shield avowedly left-wing establishment figures from any scrutiny that might expose their 'anti-Zionist' obsessions as redolent of a bigotry of that older and more unambiguously unsanitary type: antisemitism.
Quote examples
Linda Colley
British Historian
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.
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Julia Gillard
Australian Statesman
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
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