Word: slappingly
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...unappealing--self-righteous and stuffy--but Jerry Colker succeeds in making him unbearably obnoxious. His face is frozen into an expression of supreme smugness, broken occasionally by a smile of self-satisfaction. He delivers his lines stiffly and in such patronizing tones that one wonders why Billie doesn't slap him instead of kissing him--or at least exclaim, as Brock does at one point, "Don't give me them Harvard College expressions on your face...
...this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment is an affront to the honor of DuBois's name, an insult to the Black community, in general, and a slap in the face to the entire faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department. It is hard to conceive of a more inappropriate choice...
...tried, at least initially, to employ Lyndon Johnson effectively. Kennedy saw to it that Johnson presided over National Security Council meetings, appointed him to head the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and sent him off to squeeze palms and slap backs in 33 countries. Yet Johnson began to feel overlooked and underused. Toward the end of the Kennedy years he asked old friends, "Why does the White House have...
Sauvagnargues's unexpected move from the French embassy in Bonn to the Quai d'Orsay was in itself a mild slap at the Gaullist orthodoxy. A wartime supporter of De Gaulle's, Sauvagnargues earned the general's disfavor later on, when he publicly allowed that France might want to encourage the continuance of the Atlantic Alliance. He was promptly banished to a long career of postings abroad, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to West Germany...
...Whore disappointed, but realize a few days later it is still unfolding as you think about it. It's always undercutting itself, being generally obstreperous, mocking any intention to take it seriously. The last line is "I don't like to be watched while I'm vomiting"--a slap in the face to an audience that still half-expects a dance of death silhouetted across a mountain-top at the end of a talky black and white film. But if you see the film without preconceptions or a burning need to analyze, and stick it out to the bitter...