Sentence examples for a direct slap from inspiring English sources

This ballet is a direct slap in Balanchine's face.

"It's a direct slap at historic Irish Catholic Democrats in this country".

The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan was a "direct slap in the face" to Qatar's plans.

Although I guess a perfect representation might have required an extra-base hit, some RBI or a direct slap in the face of a former teammate.

"For the city to allow this, it's a direct slap not only at this union but at all unions in the city," he said.

Mr. Putin may be playing to nationalist and Slavic sentiment in Russia with his embrace of Belgrade, but these steps are a direct slap at Washington.

Coming at a time when the specter of a new cold war hovers over the relations between the United States and Russia, the K.H.L.'s creation is a deliberate, and direct, slap shot at the N.H.L.

Her golden motorbus, Dolly I, is almost too brilliant to look at under the direct slap of a Tennessee sun.

To retire in such a blaze of detente, Mr. Reagan has been persuaded that nothing - not even the most direct slap in the face administered to this Government by a Russian leader -should stand in the way of Geneva's Round Six.

In Oregon and Arizona, the votes were direct slaps at State Legislatures that had voted curbs on marijuana.

Mr Fischer suggested that WestLB should start a direct bank in competition, but his savings banks slapped him down.Common sense says that the regional principle will not survive.