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.
Or, if you don't, it's a flat out lie.It is a blatant display of bigotry and racist defiance that symbolizes slavery and black oppression and is a direct slap in the face of blacks a century and a half after the South was vanquished on the battlefield?
Sella's indictment and Pollard's sentence are thus seen here as a direct slap at the credibility of top Israeli officials.
The former electrician ignited the 1978-1981 movement for political reforms in China with a Dec. 5, 1978, wallposter calling for democracy as a "fifth modernization". The appeal was a direct slap at leader Deng Xiaoping's program of four modernizations to improve China.
Many Democrats saw that as a direct slap at the president, and several dozen, including eight senators and about a quarter of the House Democrats, skipped the speech, particularly members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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.
But the subtext is even more appalling — and as an Asian woman of Japanese descent, it feels like a direct slap in the face from Johansson, director Sanders and everyone involved in this mess.
Canceling the meeting in Moscow would be seen as a direct slap at Mr. Putin, who is known to value such high-level visits as a validation of Russian prestige.
"It's a direct slap at historic Irish Catholic Democrats in this country".
