Sentences with phrase «slapped in the face with»
«Having spent four years living and breathing this independent luxury hotel, we'd go to Indianapolis or Omaha and get slapped in the face with Hiltons or Marriotts, these thoughtless hotels and restaurants,» recalls Robinson, who worked for years with the Four Seasons and helped Tricoci develop and manage the Elysian, a high - end boutique hotel in Chicago.
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People love to quote Buffet and say «price is what you pay value is what you get» but I can assure you that Buffet would slap you in the face with a BigMac if you paid 60 times the earnings for a company that sells a boring (non growth) product such as toilet - paper or tooth - paste.
People should be insulted & offended by the fact that some people still believe this ridiculous nonsense that we call «The Bible» and that a television network has the right to slap us in the face with this propaganda once again.
I am about to get slapped in the face with a dose of Summer heat.
Iceland Air certainly lures you in with the cheap flights and no added fee extra stay, but I'm sure once we touch down we'll be slapped in the face with absurdly outrageously expensive prices for just about everything imaginable.
It doesn't just slap me in the face with heat.
Quick and refreshing, like getting slapped in the face with a sunbeam.
If you are a supporter then you would know all this and wouldn't need to be slapped in the face with some truth!
I'm guessing that, after years of taking things for granted, last seasons protests along with not getting the full support from the board, must have hit Wenger like a slap in the face with a wet fish.
He said they were waiting to know the next line of action until they were slapped in the face with the information that the ex Guantanamo Bay detainees had been made refugees.
The first time I worked with a Steel Club, I felt like I got slapped in the face with a potent dose of locomotive reality.
Right now, you can't walk into any of the well - known nation - wide retailers with being just about slapped in the face with red / white / blue clothing, accessories, and decor items.
Sharing a tear with you as we entered Zion National park and being slapped in the face with the goodness of God.
How often has your week ended and you really wanted to go out and have fun with someone special, but you are slapped in the face with the realization that you're single and have no prospects?
Slapped in the face with a reminder, again, that Bryan Singer is a damn good director and this was just marketed horribly wrong.
That's complete dishonesty I know but it just feels more insulting now, as if they're slapping us all in the face with a glove while delivering some pithy line about how everyone else is wrong and how dare us for questioning them.
Most unforgivably, the first - class Hong Kong stars Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and Anthony Wong are practically slapped in the face with their lifeless, insulting roles.
Where the third segment rests on Zhao's powerful performance, even in an almost comically obvious sequence where she's slapped in the face with a stack of bills, the last is similarly marred by an errant strain of sentimentalism.
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.
After a string of boring silver suppositories calling themselves «concept cars» at the 2017 Frankfurt Auto Show, Honda's Urban EV concept is like a slap in the face with your favorite sandwich: surprising, but delightful.
They all swear they are the next great but when I read I am slapped in the face with... Nothing.
I mostly look for fantasy reads, not romance / erotica, so I just don't want to keep getting slapped in the face with pictures of skinny chicks in red panties....
This situation is going to sound very «cartoonish», but I assure you it is no joke and a fact that I've just recently been slapped in the face with... I myself was brought up to highly value the dollar by my family so I still don't quite understand people who abuse both money or «bad» debt (credit cards, auto loans, student loans & etc).
They slap you in the face with the full force of their beauty mimicking the reflections of an artist's finest water colour masterpiece.
A new Crash game after years of it missing in action but alas, like a slap in the face with a wet fish, we find out that its just a remaster of the old games and that Crash will be appearing in the Skylanders game.
Like being slapped in the face with a fish, Bound by Flame is going to challenge players unlike anything they've faced in a very long time.
After the price hike to # 49.99 this is a slap in the face with a wet fish.
It's easy to wax lyrical about the era of gaming when hand - holding didn't exist, but some of those games mercilessly sawed your hands off and repeatedly slapped you in the face with them, all the while chanting «Stop hitting yourself!».
A few times, I tried to connect to other players, but I was just slapped in the face with an error, or a pretty laggy connection, but I did get into a few successful events with a friend and it was decent fun I suppose.
About a dozen years ago I was slapped in the face with a warm Burrito from Taco Bell.
With this show, Ebner has made it abundantly clear that the last thing he wants to do is let his work just be, slapping us in the face with — of all things — paintings in the shape of «surrogate» fish.
I have had one interview and when that was over I was told to call the next day and he would let me know the time and place to report, when I did call him back his reply to me «Don't call me I will call you» why give me a positive response on the interview then you slap me in the face with a response like don't call I will call you.
«If you're a real estate agent and the title company you're working with can receive funds through ZOCCAM and you're not using it, you deserve to be slapped in the face with a mackerel.»
Not exact matches
TMZ reports the former Hollywood mogul was leaving Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort when he was approached by a man who slapped him twice in the face with the back of his hand.
On Tuesday, she warned acting Labor Secretary Edward Hugler that a delay would amount to «a slap in the face» to firms that have invested in complying with the rule, reports ThinkAdvisor.
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.
And it creates contempt in small little boys, who go from cutelycomplaining about having to be with a girl in class because she has girly - bacterias until he gets older and thinks she deserves that slap in the face.
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The WTC cross is not meant to be a slap at the face of atheists, it's really meant for those crazy illiterate bearded guys with the dirty rag on their heads who worship a meteor in Mecca!
With turning the other cheek, my take (again rightly or wrongly) is in the context of Roman occupation and it being an act of active resistance, using laws that exist against in this case a Roman that would slap a Jew in the face.
living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...
Previous to this reversal, the hot takes were mostly about how Strasburg's refusal to pitch (if that's what it was) was a slap in the face to his teammates (unless they understood) and how the postseason was where Curt Schilling bled for your sins and Kirk Gibson didn't need to be ambulatory to slay his mustachioed dragon (unless, stay with me here, this situation was somehow unique and deserved to be treated as such).
For the manager why would he keep trying knowing he's gone anyways and with a massive slap in the face, while the players couldn't care less because all they've been hearing is this player and that player being sold and why put the team in a champions league position for the incoming manager, just for him to turn around and sell them.
I read Wenger doesn't like confrontation so I would guess that DB10 might not be the best one to help with CF, someone like Wrighty tho... He would get in Girouds face shouting at him then turn round and slap Theo across the face and tell him to grow up.
With Ronda exerting all of the control, Stephanie came to tag back in and save the day, slapping Ronda across the face.
@GOONSTER It's a huge slap in the face, coming from a team with tax - free status.
It is a major slap in our face that a club with such a rich history and global following, massive wealth, prime location in England we have to sit year after year with these disappointments and be humiliated like we were today and countless other games, especially the thrashings United, Chelsea and City have been giving us over the past few years.
Manchester City defender Bacary Sagna has said that England were given a «big slap in the face» with their Euro 2016 defeat at the hands of Iceland.
When Diego Costa grabbed an 89th minute winner in his first game at Chelsea, the 47 - year - old expressoed down the pitch, carrying out a large number of hand slaps with the home supporters before converting to his serious game face again.
Seeing Mertesacker, with all of his experience, all of his leadership, lose a game within a few minutes was a slap in the face — made worse by Arsenal looking like a lost team at home.