Take a whiff.

Maybe we should ask why the skew is so negative.

Is psychology somehow behind the pervasive negative skew in recent months?

generally speaking, the photos give off a whiff of banned propaganda.

One whiff is usually enough to send an elephant the other way.

So, when you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices.

But this argument has the familiar whiff of the late stages of empire.

With a certain threatening whiff, Isidro Catela, from the Episcopal Conference previously mentioned, says

...Perhaps for the last time, there is a whiff of method to (Brando's) madness.

Stock markets unusually negative skew is not inconsistent with booming price growth in recent years.

Several such images were circulated through social media to skew public opinion in this period.

This probably explains the whiff of panic that followed China s tiny, but totally unexpected, devaluation of the renminbi.

They want to win elections, and the best way to do that is to skew reality to their own benefit.

If instead, A was equal to the negative of its transpose, i.e., A AT, then A is a skew symmetric matrix.

Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year.

Symmetric or skew symmetric matrix A square matrix A that is equal to its transpose, i.e., A AT, is a symmetric matrix.

The information war currently waged over Ukraine has included revelations that there are many Russian trolls for hire working to skew the discourse.

In higher dimensions, two lines that do not intersect are parallel if they are contained in a plane, or skew if they are not.

Being removed from the US, they should be highly sensitive to any whiff of information that their money may not be safe there.

Defenders of these ill fated cross border takeovers worry that a sinister whiff of the twentieth century s worst moments is in the air.

No jackboots are to be seen marching through Hong Kong's sleek shopping malls, but a distinct whiff of totalitarianism is in the air.

If bank failures typically reflect real underlying problems, sensitive professional investors can be expected to react quickly when any whiff of panic is in the air.

That whiff of careening, heedless adolescent fecklessness is part of what makes the archetypal American male presence alarming when he is equipped with a global cudgel.

Moneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby launching model rockets by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious glee and just a whiff of danger.

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.

While it assigns responsibility to Japan for WWII, and even unflinchingly names the political and military leaders who bear responsibility, one can still detect a whiff of reluctance in its failure to fully describe some of Japan s war time actions.

In the US, the skew has been so negative only three other times since 1960 at the time of the 6.7 drop on May 28, 1962, the record shattering 20.5 plummet on October 19, 1987, and the 6.1 decline on October 13, 1989.

So, if the exit is small, even the faintest whiff of smoke can trigger a stampede. But if the exit looks comfortably large, the public will be much more likely to remain calm, even if parts of the room are already filling with smoke.

No jackboots are to be seen marching through Hong Kong's sleek shopping malls, but a distinct whiff of totalitarianism is in the air. The tell tale phrases are on everyone's lips talk of the need for anti subversion laws, press controls, strong leadership, of adjusting to Hong Kong's new reality.