On the downside, they placed the Record/Stop record right in the middle of the screen – smack dab where your cheek bone will sit, potentially misfiring the button.
Because there on the screen, smack in the middle of the previews for a movie called Bad Moms starring Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate and Kristen Bell was a joke about murdered trans man Brandon Teena.
The film's insistence on turning Dwight, a volatile man of uncertain character on the page, into a weak-willed but essentially decent and loving father on the screen, smacks of the worst kind of moviemaking compromise.
I play a couple of rounds beside a chap from developers NetherRealm, who shows off the game's super-powered set-piece special moves, including smacking your opponent off the screen and into a passing train, and grabbing a patron of a Metropolis bar and using him as a projectile.
Every time a user places another bid, additional time is added to a big clock smack in the middle of the screen — it's not entirely unlike QuiBid's system, except (y'know) much less shady.
The more damage they've taken, the more readily they will fly off the edge of the screen when you smack 'em.
The Web site for the No Fear energy drink smacks the "Man Up" slogan across the screen, accompanied by an aggressive rock soundtrack.
The landscape whipped and sharpened as if it were the screen of a television that had been smacked; I wondered if I was crying.
"Find out," begins one ad, with the screen next saying, "which hotels," then "will make you want," then "to smack someone".
I burst through the screen door and was on him in two strides, grasped his blond hair, smacked his head once, twice, three times.
