have the earmarks of
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Emotions vividly displayed are, as already pointed out in connection with sympathy, readily duplicated in others, and the ardors of the enthusiast are, when they have the earmarks of sincerity, contagious.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
He would have said that Bud did not have the "earmarks" of an Idaho rider.
From Cow-Country by Bower, B. M.
Others, however, have the earmarks of his humorous spirit in its more noteworthy manifestations.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
The minister who is to be impeached, the wise servants who are to gain office, the attack on corruption, the spirited foreign policy—all these have the earmarks of a platform rather than of a philosophy.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph
Perhaps we can think up another plan that will have the earmarks of success about it.”
From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Webster, Frank V.
