Sentences with phrase «hard slap of»

It is the point where fantasizing and planning meet the cold hard slap of reality.

I'm the hard slap of reality, chased with a warm hug.

I tend to be a trusting soul, but have had the «hard slap of reality» applied to my tender face on more than one occasion.

Not exact matches

A tit - for - tat trade war could evolve into a full - blown one that hurts everyone, and would be a slap in the face of the global statesmanship, and commitment to globalization Xi has tried hard to display, most notably with his speech at the original Davos last year, where he presented himself as a counter to the newly - elected Trump's protectionism.

The answer is simple: Their slap - on - the - side - of - the - head ideas are so at odds to what you learned in marketing school (or in the marketing school of hard - knocks) that they always surprise, always reward.

TORONTO — «Trailer Park Boys» actor Lucy DeCoutere has accused former CBC - Radio host Jian Ghomeshi of choking her «to the point she could not breathe» and slapping her «hard three times on the side of her head,» the Toronto Star reported late Wednesday.

There are other players with hard slap shots in the league — Brett Hull in St. Louis, Al Iafrate in Washington, Stephane Richer in New Jersey are near the top of the list — but MacInnis's shot seems to be universally considered the scariest long - distance weapon.

In this case, though, it's hard to suggest that the push for inclusion would be prioritized as much if it weren't possible to slap an ice - cold bottle of high - fructose corn syrup in the hands of literally everyone on the planet.

A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo slapped back hard at Sen. John DeFrancisco in a statement after the Syracuse Republican said he would be supportive of overriding a potential gubernatorial veto of procurement reform bill.

One of the women said her ear was bloodied, while another said Schneiderman slapped her so hard she had a mark the next day.

For example, in How I Met Your Mother, Marshall and Barney have an ongoing «slap bet» (wherein the winner of the bet slaps the loser as hard as he possibly can) which rides on a secret about Robin's past.

Taking on a workout routine needn't require Norwegian death metal, head butting the power rack until a mild concussion sets in, and the reception of three to five hard slaps to the face to get you psyched up.

I'm a very submissive CD, the most whore sissie or male whorest, and if my MASTER can, I suplicatte that rent me too, like a whore, forcing me whith violence first slap in the face and softly similars until arrives an progresive sistematic beat until extrem sessions of hard beating - in adecuate...

Overall the game is easy, but there is one heck of a difficulty curve near the end of the game that caused me to see the continue screen often - it wasn't so hard once I got the hang of it, but it sure was a slap in the face at first.

When you finish the hardest game of your life and you basically gave yourself carpal tunnel and you mos def would have cried if you hadn't beaten the final boss on that last attempt AND THE GAME SLAPS YOU WITH A FINAL SC... Read Full Review

Nerve - wracking from the first scene, A Quiet Place demands its audience to STFU, with perfectly unnerving sound design — the groan of an old farmhouse, the chilly slap of feet on the hard ground, the electric crack of something on the roof — that'll have you nervous to crunch on popcorn, lest an armored monster bum - rush you with the speed of a cracked - up cheetah and the combined strength of the NFL's linebackers.

DALEY: And he was 100 % game for getting slapped really hard in the face, a bunch of times, in front of that high - speed camera.

Starting at the turn of the 20th Century, Exploitation Cinema emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows, reared its ugly head in the first true Exploitation features like Traffic in Souls and Freaks, brushed shoulders with hard - boiled Film Noir in the «40s, came of age with the teen flicks of the «50s, razzed Hollywood's stodgy Production Code with innumerable «Nudie Cuties» and «Roughies,» rode high on the hog with the biker pix of the «60s and pimp - slapped some jive turkeys during the «Blaxploitation» boom of the «70s.

If you google «LMS» you will be slapped in the face with pages and pages of search results that will probably leave you much more confused than when you started, and it doesn't need to be that hard.

Since the success of Singapore's programs relies in many ways on more traditional approaches to math education, such as explicit instruction and giving students many problems to solve, in some ways its very success represented a slap in the face to American math reformers, many of whom have worked hard to eliminate such techniques from the teaching canon.

Passing in front of the TV, he'll drag hard on an imaginary cigarette, then toss the phantom cig on the floor, grind it out, and slap his right arm to his left bicep, exhaling with instant relief.

I saw another one coming and I took my hand from Pablo's fizzing snout and reached for the steering wheel and Mom slapped my hand away just as the tire hit the hole hard and I bounced sideways and cracked my head on the half - open window and Pablo flipped over onto his hind legs like he was doing a wheelie then opened his mouth and did what I said he'd do all over the front of the radio.

It's a four - day roller - coaster of hard work and wild parties, wheeling and dealing, free books, free booze, literary celebrities to bump into (literally), deals to make, nonstop noise, lines to stand in for tasteless hotdogs, hospitality suites, shuttle - buses, hands to shake, backs to slap, a lot of standing around in utmost boredom until another friend walks by and you're off for another beer, more shmooze, more noise, more party invitations, more lies and hype.

It's very hard to make it become a felony and what happens with a felony position, a lot of times, they just plead out to a misdemeanor and just get a slap on the wrist and continue to do it,» said Tristen Woods, Co-Founding Partner of Jungle Law Group.

«broken promises» is a broken record xb!tches play all the time despite the hard facts: Uncharted, GT5P, wipeoutHD, and soon KZ2, HR, GOW3, inFamous... slap slap slap: wake up baboons wiitardos don't have that same inferiority complex you xb!tches have cuz they're winning the numbers game 99 % of the anti sony bull comes from jealous xb!tches

With two players vying for political influence isn't varied enough since of course you're going to increase your scoring potential and slap down the other player, but with extra people around the table there's a lot more fun in deciding how to shift the cubes, especially as players begin to invest time in other projects as well, deliberately leaping onto the same track as you in order to benefit from your hard work.

This can be as hard as a slap to the face but it is a more obvious sign of a cheating spouse and should be noticed immediately.

To be honest I feel that not allowing the Wii U as a option for the people who pledge on kickstarter is a slap in the face of all the fans that worked hard spreading the word about the game all over the internet to allow you to hit the stretch goal to do so.

Whilst technically it's a port of the PC version, slapping that tag on The Witcher 2 for the Xbox 360 would do CD Projekt RED's hard work a massive injustice.

To accompany the group exhibition Double Agent in 2008, Phil Collins has made the photographic print You'll Never Work In This Town Again (2009) for the ICA, featuring two of the images from his series you'll never work in this town again (2004 — on - going), which is a series of photographic portraits of curators, critics, dealers, collectors and other figures in the art world — photographed on the understanding that the image would be taken immediately after the artist had slapped each sitter hard around the face.

Our post here Monday, A Cold Slap for Law Students, discussed that day's Wall Street Journal report on the sad state of the legal job market, Hard Case: Job Market Wanes for U.S. Lawyers.

A measure of whether either parent used harsh or abusive punishment, which included shaking, hitting with an object, hitting with a fist or kicking, grabbing by the neck / choking, hitting as hard as possible, burning / scalding, throwing / knocking down, and slapping on the head.