Shashi Tharoor

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?

Indian Public Servant

Terry Glavin

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.

Canadian Author

Linda Colley

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.

British Historian

Julia Gillard

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.

Australian Statesman

Create vivid sensory descriptions that incorporate smells to bring scenes to life.

Sensory Imagery

Especially useful in describing foods and cooking to convey aromas and flavors.

Culinary Usage

Use to establish a location's atmosphere by describing its characteristic smell.

Environmental Detail

Hint at a deeper emotional connection or a memory associated with the subject.

Emotional Association

Employ metaphorically to draw parallels between scents and intangible concepts.

Metaphorical Use

Use to signify an atmosphere or aura that reflects cultural or historical qualities.

Cultural Context

 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.

Redolent