Sentence examples for 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.

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

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.

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

Noah Diamond, who adapted, directed and slapped on a thick, black mustache to cavort as Groucho, worked from Will B. Johnstone's 1923 rehearsal typescript.

Abdul Jalil thus directed a slap-in-the-face at the women and the youth of Libya, robbing them of the right to choose and imposing on them an identity he and those around him favor.

Drawn in an inky and crude visual style that is as direct as a slap, the books track her imaginings and her passions, which are wonderfully responsive, though usually inadequate to the realities of the situation.

The translator, Allan Blunden, has a tin ear for register, and some of Fallada's most direct and concise slaps come out completely wrong.