Sentence examples for a sharp slap in from inspiring English sources

If Gatlin, who has run the four fastest 100m times in the world this year, was thinking that he could stroll to a gold medal in Beijing this performance would have given him a sharp slap in the face.

It's a sharp slap in the face for tech journalism well beyond the US, and a necessary one in its desire to provoke a debate about what we write about and why – even if you don't agree with all Kuittinen's conclusions.

And while the Stupak amendment is a sharp slap in the face for what most of us on the left deem an acceptable outcome, there is the fact that we're seeing legislative movement for the first time in years on the issue of health care reform in America.

Transphobic is a particularly sharp, slap-in-the-face debut that asserts itself and its creator's existence to the fullest extent.

This week's findings that one of the party's flagship policies, the pupil premium, has done nothing for social mobility in schools, must come as a particularly sharp slap in the face.

The Taoyuan result was a particularly sharp slap in the face for the KMT, since most of its big guns, including President Lee Teng-hui, had gone on the stump in support of its candidate, an unknown party apparatchik.The Taoyuan win means that the DPP now controls local government for more than 50% of Taiwan's population.

She couldn't give less of a toss about whatever it is you're moaning about and if you stand in her way, you'll get a sharp slap like the hundreds that came before you.

Then I felt a sharp slap against my nose and cheeks as I flipped over.

At first, he offered it to Harper & Brothers (who "rejected it with a sharp slap"), and then to Doubleday, Page.

But what he said and how he said it struck me like a sharp slap to the face.

Several well-placed surprises and unexpected turns not only keep you on edge but also give you the verbal equivalent of sharp slaps in the face.